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The notion of violence as a national health priority has yet to take hold, even among health professionals.

Having banned female genital cutting, his ousting was good for democracy, but but bad for women's bodies.

A new study to be conducted in South Africa, Uganda and India has sparked a heated debate in the HIV activist and research community.

Angelina might just have saved a life. But is there science to prove it?

Mentally disabled people in the rural Eastern Cape are considered worthless, even evil. When girls are sexually abused, mothers are no longer shocked.

The continent’s largest film industry has been getting mental health all wrong with dangerous consequences. Now, that’s changing.

Boitumelo Semete-Makokotlela leads the country’s medicines regulator, the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra), a public entity few people knew about until the COVID-19 pandemic hit. COVID triggered a noisy scramble for vaccines, tests and treatments that needed to be approved — often embroiled in politics.

Communities are bringing HIV monitoring and dispensing out of the clinics and into their homes.

General anaesthetic is supposed to make surgery painless. Now there’s evidence that one person in 20 may be awake when doctors think they’re under.

In the wake of acid attacks, victims — often women — can feel hopeless. Now, women around the world are fighting back.

Reusable sanitary towels are cheaper than regular pads and tampons but the state is failing to distribute these to schoolgirls from poor families.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of children die gasping for air. This could help to change that.

The reality is many of us look at water like we do a takeaway container.

Instead of the care she sought, a vulnerable patient found further distress in a PE hospital.

Mia Malan reports on the challenges of involving medical schemes in the administration of the National Health Insurance scheme.

Having a chronic illness can raise your risk of depression. For diabetics, the blood sugar high and lows of everyday life take an extra toll.