Tackling the linked issues of obesity and diabetes requires changes in policy, economics and social attitudes

Ideals of what beauty is, exacerbated by social media and artificial intelligence, has the potential to harm women’s health – young women in particular

South Africa must treat the conditions that breed diabetes, including by making healthy food affordable

Although the NHI offers much-needed reform, it must find a new way to care for patients – an approach that treats people emotionally, physically, socially, psychologically and spiritually

About 60 000 South Africans die in a year from diseases that are not caused by tuberculosis or HIV before they turn 70, and about a fifth of these are from diabetes

Diabetes has become one of South Africa’s most pressing public health issues. We desperately need evidence-based science and decisive leadership to address this mounting crisis

We need a health system that not only provides medication but also encourages a healthy lifestyle. Group empowerment, digital solutions, and telehealth could help with this

Among NCDs is diabetes, which is likely to afflict 8.75 million people by 2040 and requires urgent government intervention

Africans need to be fully involved in drug discovery and development research for tuberculosis on the continent