Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects between 5% and 7% of schoolgoing children. But because doctors can only prescribe treatment for a month at a time, many kids in South Africa ...

As politicians, activists and researchers duke it out from labs and clinics and press conferences, those who have the most to ...

More than a quarter of South African children under the age of five are chronically malnourished. That’s bad for them, their ...

In the latest episode of Health Beat, we unpack the growing use of the psychedelic drug, ketamine, to treat severe depression and chronic pain. Research shows it can work quickly to improve mood, but ...

It's been two decades since the denialism war was won in South Africa. Now HIV scientists and government are pitted against each other once again, with one side saying the health minister is in denial ...

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Baby Savers South Africa is taking the government to court over the ban on baby boxes in Gauteng. Are they a harmful tool that makes child abandonment and trafficking easy, or a lifesaver for mothers ...

Baby Savers South Africa is taking the government to court over the ban on baby boxes in Gauteng. Are they a harmful tool that makes child abandonment and trafficking easy, or a lifesaver for mothers ...

In today’s newsletter, Anna-Maria van Niekerk and Linda Pretorius look into South Africa’s high rates of teen pregnancy. Sign up today. December holidays started badly for Ainsley Robinson.* At 14, ...

Statistics show Africa is extremely vulnerable to vaccine crime. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando, Flickr) On Friday, 6 March 2020, a day after South Africa recorded its first-confirmed case of COVID-19, ...