How to decode Big Tobacco’s illicit trade fiction
On the front lines of the Tobacco Bill battle, the first salvo of the year was launched. British American Tobacco South Africa (Batsa) announced in January that... Read more.
Obesity: the chronic disease that isn’t treated like one
A study about weight loss medications that was published in the British Medical Journal in January didn’t seem like good news. Oxford researchers looked at 37... Read more.
Here’s what’s on South Africa’s 2026 public health agenda
South Africa is a study in contrasts. And the 2026 public health agenda is no exception. Breakthrough HIV prevention medicine has arrived alongside US funding cuts.... Read more.
Africa’s floods and droughts are messing with people’s minds
The parched earth opened in jagged cracks. But it was the dead cows on the side of the road that did it. By October of 2014, the government had declared a state... Read more.
