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South Africa Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from South Africa with our JSON API.

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API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from South Africa.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=za&category=health&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 1532,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "0a8804f5979d60a630f2bcf6adbc313a",
            "title": "Diphtheria situational report (week 51 of 2025)",
            "description": "Between 1 January 2024 and 21 December 2025, 86 confirmed cases of respiratory diphtheria, 2 probable respiratory diphtheria cases and 60 asymptomatic carriers of toxigenic C. diphtheriae, detected during contact tracing, have been identified in South Africa. The majority of confirmed cases and carriers (75%, 110/146) were from the Western Cape, comprising 62 respiratory diphtheria […]",
            "content": "Between 1 January 2024 and 21 December 2025, 86 confirmed cases of respiratory diphtheria, 2 probable respiratory diphtheria cases and 60 asymptomatic carriers of toxigenic C. diphtheriae, detected during contact tracing, have been identified in Sout... [1886 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nicd.ac.za/diphtheria-situational-report-week-51-of-2025/",
            "image": "https://www.nicd.ac.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/AdobeStock_1110813201-scaled.jpeg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-24T16:26:24Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "474270299afe19a8f63e9389923a3521",
                "name": "NICD",
                "url": "https://www.nicd.ac.za"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f6e372ac05c38dfe125db527f0deb25f",
            "title": "Alzheimer's disease can be reversed in animal models to achieve full neurological recovery",
            "description": "For over a century, Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been considered irreversible. Consequently, research has focused on disease prevention or slowing, rather than recovery. Despite billions of dollars spent on decades of research, there has never been a clinical trial of a drug for AD with an outcome goal of reversing disease and recovering function.",
            "content": "For over a century, Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been considered irreversible. Consequently, research has focused on disease prevention or slowing, rather than recovery. Despite billions of dollars spent on decades of research, there has never been a... [6172 chars]",
            "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-alzheimer-disease-reversed-animal-full.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2025/study-shows-alzheimers.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-24T15:30:01Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fc12437cc984742bf9a97820262ab48a",
                "name": "Medical Xpress",
                "url": "https://medicalxpress.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "b2a68b946f927e9656b82d2e49f47a4f",
            "title": "Earlier Use of CDK4/6 Inhibitors, Oral SERDs Reflects Shift Toward Proactive Management of HR+ Breast Cancer",
            "description": "Experts convened during an OncLive Peer Exchange to discuss the evolving treatment paradigm in HR-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.",
            "content": "The therapeutic landscape for hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer is currently undergoing a paradigm shift, characterized by the expansion of oral selective estrogen receptor degraders (SERDs) and targeted therapies into earlier li... [17151 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.onclive.com/view/earlier-use-of-cdk4-6-inhibitors-oral-serds-reflects-shift-toward-proactive-management-of-hr-breast-cancer",
            "image": "https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0vv8moc6/onclive/9a7375c7a575d660f86f45efe43cb03361f5f4f3-1280x720.png",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-24T15:09:05Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0da2d0b1fc86b8b05e122c750c98bd32",
                "name": "OncLive",
                "url": "https://www.onclive.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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