Patients admitted to Hewu Hospital in the Eastern Cape are subjected to cold wards with no heaters and dilapidated prefabricated walls. Situated at Whittlesea about 35 km from Que ...

Hewu Hospital is facing a severe nursing staff shortage.

Dlamini now walks the streets of KwaMashu in Durban, going from house to house, meeting young people who are caught in addiction.

Low screening coverage, late diagnoses, high HIV prevalence, and limited access to treatment and vaccines are driving cervical cancer cases and deaths in South Africa. The country has a cervical ...

The community of Welkom, in the Free State, is crying foul after three weeks without running water while raw sewage runs through their streets. Residents criticised the “clean cities and towns” ...

The municipality says the sewer spillages in Stinkwater are caused by a sewer pump station that is not operational due to vandalism.

Nomaswazi Zulu* (23) is a sex worker in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. She found out she has HIV in 2018 and has been taking antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) since. For the past seven years, Zulu would make the ...

It was not an isolated incident. In recent months, many videos have circulated on social media showing South Africans – including private citizens and members of the anti-migrant group Operation ...

The National Health Council has allocated R1.78 billion for the recruitment of 1,200 doctors, 200 nurses, and 259 additional healthcare professionals. On Thursday, the National Health Council which ...

The 174-page guidelines are aimed at health workers providing obstetric, surgical and anaesthetic services for pregnant women in district clinics, health centres and district hospitals. The document ...