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Some women find it hard to leave their abusers for economic and emotional reasons and feel 'stuck' in their situation.

The Gauteng health department has admitted to problems at the facility, seen by the public protector.

Cannabis may well have beneficial properties, but experts warn that smoking it is still bad for your health.

Sperm washing, assisted insemination & long hospital waits — if you were lucky. This is what falling pregnant when you were HIV-positive used to look like. But things are changing for the better.

Psychics such as John Edward are 'mostly harmless' and often quite helpful to the living, experts say.

Treatment for the debilitating obstetric injury has been scarce in Uganda, but organisations are helping to fill the gap, writes Mara Kardas-Nelson.

When a river and several hours of dirt roads stand between you & the nearest hospital, giving birth can be deadly. One nurse is hoping to change that.

Why the woes facing South Africa’s Thuthuzela Care Centres may not be as unique as we thought.

Since the country’s rollout, less than a quarter of people who’ve started taking the HIV prevention pill are young women — despite high HIV rates.

The country can't produce its own paediatric heart surgeons. But that may be beginning to change, starting in Cape Town.

Community chemists say racial profiling and gated network are putting them out of business.

In the rarely visited town of Gedeb, fears are rife over state plans to return 150 000 people to areas they fled because of ethnic violence.

​Nearly 36 000 young Mozambicans have signed up for SMS-based health counselling but will the new technology curb HIV infections?

Simple phone services are stepping in to help women who can't seek clinical advice in person.

You can’t visit family members with COVID-19 in hospital. So how do you find out how they’re doing? Mia Malan from the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism documented one woman’s story.

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.