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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

Workers at Mandeni Shopping Centre, north of KwaZulu-Natal, are calling for urgent intervention to Sinikithemba Clinic, saying the facility is too small, poorly equipped and struggling to cope with ...

Broken floors, pit toilets and no electricity are exposing learners and teachers to daily health and safety risks at two schools near King William’s Town in the Eastern Cape. At Lukhozi High School in ...

People are resorting to desperate measures for survival. (Photos: Maanda Bele) In villages across Vhembe District, the daily search for water has become a matter of survival. For some communities, ...