Health

Nearly five years and R38-million later, Mamelodi families still don’t have a clinic

The City of Tshwane fired the construction company last year

Teenager hitchhiking to the nearest clinic delivers her stillborn baby on the roadside

Villagers in the Eastern Cape town where Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was born often wait six hours for an ambulance

HIV patients go weeks without medicines after US aid cut

Legal challenges have restored funding but damage has been done

Fraud flagged at the Compensation Fund

The Fund has been failing audits for 12 years and counting, Parliament told

What to expect when you’re expecting during a climate crisis

Rising global temperatures pose a serious threat to health of pregnant women and babies, say Wits researchers

Over 15,000 South African health workers’ jobs are at risk as US cuts aid

Some harm reduction and LGBTI services have already closed

1,500 Lesotho health workers sent home after US aid suspended

Trump blocking aid threatens vital health services

Explainer: HIV, HPV and cervical cancer

Trump has stopped aid to South Africa, endangering thousands of lives

But we must not allow peddlers of hate to undermine our fragile constitutional democracy

Go-slow at hospital after CEO was suspended

Brief suspension came after a letter in the name of CEO Mziyanda Tshaka circulated about an acute shortage of doctors at Tambo Regional Hospital

125-year-old Eastern Cape hospital in desperate need of renovations

Protesters march to Greenville Hospital near Bizana to complain about conditions

No money to fix broken clinic, says health department

Patients say no maintenance has been done on Colchester’s health facility since 2020

Afriforum lobbied Trump about land expropriation. Now he wants to cut South Africa’s health funding

“All I want is a job” pleads unemployed doctor

Unemployed health graduates march in Pretoria, demanding urgent action from Treasury

Protest outside Delft community health centre after baby’s death

The health department says the centre cannot treat patients who need specialist care and the child was referred to Tygerberg Hospital