Today, people over 50 make up the second largest group of South Africa’s HIV-positive population. But as people age, health ...

While discoveries like these rarely make the news, it happens all the time. We asked leading forensic pathologist Shakeera Holland what her team found after studying remains at the Diepkloof Forensic ...

In today’s newsletter, Tanya Pampalone and Mia Malan explain why South Africa still as unsafe abortions. Sign up for our newsletter today. There are piles of R100 notes, a hand holding a tinted vial, ...

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People who are over the age of 50, obese or living with diabetes or high blood pressure are more likely to die from COVID-19 than those who are younger or without these conditions.

South Africans in Wuhan are set to come back home on Friday, but our secret journaller has a few final thoughts to share in this final instalment of our series of first-hand accounts from citizens ...

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Instead of the Aids denialism of decades past, it’s US funding cuts that could lead to up to 300 000 more HIV infections in the next four years. Activists like Sisonke Msimang say the past has some ...