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Goodman Makanda survived the most drug-resistant form of tuberculosis that scientists know of, but he lost a lung to the disease in the process. Now, he says he would “rather die” than take handfuls of TB medicine again.

Medical apps could drastically improve lives, but can't be accessed by those who need them most.

Community workers are twiddling their thumbs while the state drags its heels on a new strategy, writes Mia Malan.

The pain of bereavement is supposed to ease with time. When it doesn't, psychiatrists call it 'complicated grief' and it can be treated.

Migraine sufferers may not realise that drug overuse can be a large part of the problem.

Unsafe terminations in Malawi may be curbed after a new law is enacted, but it’s just the first step

Homeopathy may now be regulated but many remedies remain untested.

Partners and families allegedly drugged women and in some cases even physically restrained them as doctors performed the procedure.

Until now, the national and provincial health departments have not been able to say where services are provided. Here's how we found them.

Organ donations are rare in SA: donors and the specialists needed to do transplants are few. But awareness increases as more lives are being saved.

ARVs have stopped children dying, now the former Aids hospice is helping them to thrive.

Zackie Achmat was one of the most vociferous voices against former president Thabo Mbeki’s HIV denialism in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He now lives in downtown Cape Town and fights state capture — and broken trains.

When hospitals are few and far between, these shelters become homes away from home for expecting mothers. Find out how countries around the world are getting mothers to book in for better births starting right here close to home.

For grandmothers across Côte d’Ivoire, climate change has had unexpected consequences. Once abundant with crop life, sustenance farming has become an unpredictable nightmare in the country’s villages. Young people of working age are now leaving villages in droves — without their children.

South Africa plans to roll out treatment for opioid addiction to all government health facilities by 2028, according to a draft of the country’s sixth HIV action plan. Read one person’s story of recovery here.

In rural Kenya, a group of strong-willed women is giving traumatised young runaways a second chance at life.