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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": 600,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "dc78004e0bd18488e4d36ba3e5e46854",
            "title": "Moving House Burns More Calories Than the Gym. Here’s Why",
            "description": "Moving house equals physical exhaustion. You burn more calories than at the gym and an expert said it's like running two marathons.",
            "content": "Boxes. Packing. Unpacking. Heavy Lifting. Moving house is not for sissies.\nIt ranks as one of the most stressful events in anyone’s life and, to boot, it’s not just emotional upheaval. It’s a physical workout unlike any other.\nA study by British gym ... [4073 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.citizen.co.za/lifestyle/moving-house-burns-more-calories-than-the-gym/",
            "image": "https://media.citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/iStock-1339432125.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-12T05:05:44Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "70fef475a9ba64f00a42970d13afd011",
                "name": "The Citizen",
                "url": "https://www.citizen.co.za"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c4a5fc3b5dcf4e68e35d76bfcea78c44",
            "title": "Perimenopause: An understudied transition for the brain",
            "description": "We know little about the mechanisms underlying well-known perimenopause symptoms in the brain. More research—in animals and humans—is essential.",
            "content": "The menopausal transition, or perimenopause, is a 2-to-10-year stretch of hormone irregularity leading up to menopause, when menstruation ceases permanently. It is a time that can come with a variety of challenging symptoms—including hot flashes, sle... [6889 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thetransmitter.org/sex-hormones/perimenopause-importantant-understudied-transition-brain/",
            "image": "https://www.thetransmitter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/cropped-menopause-brain-kundakovic-525.png",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-12T05:00:15Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a116925725eb02dcad3982c2fa1dacb6",
                "name": "The Transmitter",
                "url": "https://www.thetransmitter.org"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "0e98c28807dc3dbc63982f7275fb9aeb",
            "title": "UK regulator approves a new skin test for TB",
            "description": "MHRA approved Siiltibcy, a next-generation skin test that uses recombinant proteins to identify TB infection with higher specificity than current methods.",
            "content": "A newly approved diagnostic test could give UK clinicians a more accurate way to identify latent and active tuberculosis (TB).\nThe Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved Siiltibcy, a next-generation skin test that use... [2735 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.eatg.org/hiv-news/uk-regulator-approves-a-new-skin-test-for-tb/",
            "image": "https://www.eatg.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/db3p9y_zwbc.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-12T03:18:28Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "323e897150d4f6ea4eb50b9db2f4fb89",
                "name": "European AIDS Treatment Group",
                "url": "https://www.eatg.org"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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