Botswana Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from Botswana with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Headlines are based on Google News rankings and returned as JSON.

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Request and live response

This request returns the current top health headlines from Botswana. The response below is live: it was fetched when this page loaded. Every parameter is described in the Top Headlines endpoint documentation.

GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=health&country=bw&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=health" \
  --data-urlencode "country=bw" \
  --data-urlencode "apikey=YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

response = requests.get(
    "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines",
    params={"category": "health", "country": "bw", "apikey": API_KEY},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()

for article in response.json()["articles"]:
    print(article["title"])

const API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY";

const params = new URLSearchParams({
    category: "health",
    country: "bw",
    apikey: API_KEY,
});

const response = await fetch(`https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?${params}`);
if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
}

const { articles } = await response.json();
for (const article of articles) {
    console.log(article.title);
}

On the Free plan, browsers can only call the API from localhost: see Using the API in the FAQ.

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$params = http_build_query([
    "category" => "health",
    "country"  => "bw",
    "apikey"   => $apiKey,
]);

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $params);
if ($response === false) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Request failed");
}

$data = json_decode($response, true);
foreach ($data["articles"] as $article) {
    echo $article["title"] . PHP_EOL;
}

using System.Net.Http.Json;

const string ApiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

using var client = new HttpClient();

var url = $"https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=health&country=bw&apikey={ApiKey}";
var data = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<ApiResponse>(url)
           ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Empty response");

foreach (var article in data.Articles)
{
    Console.WriteLine(article.Title);
}

record ApiResponse(List<Article> Articles);
record Article(string Title);

200 OK · Live JSON response

{
    "totalArticles": 8556,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "8402f8901328e1355a74da834699f2cc",
            "title": "Regulatory T Cells May Link Obesity and Lung Cancer",
            "description": "CT, mouse, and bronchoscopy data link higher body fat to increased lung cancer risk, implicating regulatory T cells as a prevention target.",
            "content": "To better characterize this relationship, investigators used computed tomography (CT) imaging to assess total body fat in individuals at high risk for lung cancer and those with early-stage disease. Patients with early-stage lung cancer had a greater... [1105 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.targetedonc.com/view/obesity-regulatory-t-cells-lung-cancer-development-yendamuri",
            "image": "https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0vv8moc6/targetedonc/f6d494e3b814a7a767e3e6d1a15b65d06fe949b2-1920x1080.png?w=1200&fit=max&q=75&fm=png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T20:21:07Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5e38c926c12b41af0a0d41b6f36f5328",
                "name": "Targeted Oncology",
                "url": "https://www.targetedonc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4127bf0edbb6000d5b563fb9f0d3cacc",
            "title": "Tarlatamab Plus Durvalumab Improves Overall and Progression-Free Survival in Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer",
            "description": "The phase 3 DeLLphi-305 trial showed tarlatamab plus durvalumab significantly improved overall and progression-free survival in extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.",
            "content": "Adding tarlatamab to durvalumab as first-line maintenance therapy after initial chemoimmunotherapy for extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC) led to significantly improved progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) compared with... [8831 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.oncologynewscentral.com/lung-cancer/tarlatamab-durvalumab-improves-os-pfs-sclc-dellphi-305",
            "image": "https://images.ctfassets.net/tgf4i61m32yj/PhKwysgud3cYW1zg6SmGT/36722fab7f3e1a42049debf5ea5bcb4f/GettyImages-2293185445-3000x2000.jpg?fm=webp&q=50&w=1200&h=600&fit=thumb",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T18:53:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "3ca3dab89c1b4b213e405d97087915bd",
                "name": "Oncology News Central",
                "url": "https://www.oncologynewscentral.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1234868a3106b9a9391d3125456e4c48",
            "title": "Chad launches health campaign amid dengue epidemic",
            "description": "N'Djamena, Nov 3 (Prensa Latina) In response to a dengue epidemic, authorities in Chad are currently engaged in a health campaign that includes sanitation efforts, the establishment of medical stations, and the provision of completely free medical services at public institutions.",
            "content": "Data from the Ministry of Health indicate that 353 cases and 14 deaths have been confirmed in the capital.\nOfficials added that several facilities have had to install additional beds, as the number of patients arriving with symptoms has exceeded exis... [425 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.plenglish.com/news/2026/11/03/chad-launches-health-campaign-amid-dengue-epidemic/",
            "image": "https://www.plenglish.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/4._Identificador_Vertical_Color-Institucional-1.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T17:05:25Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7fc185edbf8796cf7168558cdae5d743",
                "name": "Prensa Latina - Latin American News Agency",
                "url": "https://www.plenglish.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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