No local cases of hantavirus have been reported in South Africa thus far, ensuring public safety and health awareness.

Hoedspruit, a luxury tourist town surrounded by wildlife, offers no housing for service workers, creating a troubling plastic view.

For many parents, education is one of the most difficult hurdles when raising children with autism. Specialised schools are few, often far away.

Hantavirus is not Covid-19. It is not easily spread; in fact, it’s unusual for the disease to spread from person to person. This is according to Professor Lucille Blumberg, an infectious disease ...

South Africans are being told that providing a new HIV prevention tool (lenacapavir) to just about 456,000 people is a victory. It is not. In a country that still records hundreds of new infections ...

South Africa is being asked to celebrate a breakthrough that hasn’t happened yet. A plan to deliver lenacapavir (a groundbreaking HIV prevention injection) to roughly 400,000 people in our country has ...

South Africa recently announced the arrival of the first shipment of lenacapavir, the injection proven highly effective in preventing HIV with only two jabs a year. While there’s been a lot of ...

Hantaviruses are a group of viruses carried by rodents like rats and mice, and can cause severe disease in humans. Not all hantaviruses cause disease in people, and only a small number like the Andes ...

Malaria outbreaks are rising again in parts of southern Africa. Across the SADC (Southern African Development Community) region, there is a convergence of pressures: climate-driven outbreaks, funding ...