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Introduce harm-reduction and HIV programmes – especially for heroin users – before it's too late.

Rare diseases lead to development of new drugs that, like other rare commodities command high prices.

Specialist doctors at many state facilities aren’t showing up to work despite earning millions of rands a year in taxpayer money. The consequences for patient health can be devastating but not everyone agrees on the solutions.

Blind football represents hope and belonging for Egypt's one million visually impaired.

Where traditional beliefs are more real than textbooks, treating mental illness is a balancing act for sangomas and medical doctors alike.

Linda-Gail Bekker says researching infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and HIV is like a colossal round of the murder mystery cluedo. Follow the story of the scientist with the purple pixie-cut from a farm in Zimbabwe to her inauguration as the first African president of the International Aids Society and beyond.

Abandoned as children, women in Harare are now teaching one another to fight for their futures.

Anne von Gottberg and Cheryl Cohen are two of South Africa’s foremost scientists. We’ve got them and their colleagues to thank for the country’s world class surveillance of SARS-CoV-2. But this powerful duo are also experts on how to bridge divides — and married.

For those with breast cancer, a mastectomy may seem like the best option. But Joanna Moorhead is glad she chose less extensive surgery.

Our children’s lives were lost due to the negligence of the Mpumalanga health system, say grieving mothers.

This doctor returned to his home town to live, love and heal.

Rekindling the sexual fire of a once passionate marriage has sparked a deeper emotional link.

C-sections may result in fewer lawsuits, but they are not always the best option.

Tracing the close contacts of people who test positive for coronavirus disease is a delicate dance. Here’s why these health workers wait for the cover of darkness to take action.

A stockout of the version of testosterone (made by Pfizer) used by state facilities and nonprofits is entering its second year. It’s left transgender men in South Africa, who use the hormone as part of gender-affirming treatment, with few options. Find out what lengths they’re forced to go to get the medicine.

In the first of a two-part series, a band of doctors set out to reclaim LSD and ecstasy for mental health treatments.