Health
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
News | 18 February 2025
HIV patients go weeks without medicines after US aid cut
Legal challenges have restored funding but damage has been done
News | 18 February 2025
Fraud flagged at the Compensation Fund
The Fund has been failing audits for 12 years and counting, Parliament told
News | 17 February 2025
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
News | 14 February 2025
Over 15,000 South African health workers’ jobs are at risk as US cuts aid
Some harm reduction and LGBTI services have already closed
News | 11 February 2025
1,500 Lesotho health workers sent home after US aid suspended
Trump blocking aid threatens vital health services
News | 10 February 2025
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
Analysis | 8 February 2025
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
Brief | 6 February 2025