Features

Solar power, solar electricity and mobile technology are helping to reduce the rate of maternal mortality in Cameroon.

Sihle Batiya's luckier than most – but the odds are stacked against kids with Down's syndrome in the Eastern Cape.

More developing countries are offering sight-saving surgery in their public health systems, but specialist eye surgeons are in short supply.

The HPCSA failed to rein in medical aid schemes — now it’s up to the Competition Commission

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.

Scandinavian expertise is helping to train top nurses in how to handle difficult pregnancies.

The quest for better working conditions leaves striking doctors with a tough decision but they might not have to choose.

Researchers have shown that monetary incentives lead to infants being immunised on time.

The country is fighting the intellectual property laws that hiked up the cost of its HIV programme.

For centuries, traditional religious practices have preserved the sacred forests of the Bijagós archipelago. Now missionaries are muscling in.

Some residents in rural towns in Mpumalanga have to chose between buying food or going to the doctor.

Depression among the elderly is largely overlooked, but exercise can help to counter it.

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

South Africa's maternal mortality rate leaves the elderly to deal with its consequences, with many unable to keep up.

A young pharmacist is driving a project to get Tanzania to make more of its own medicine.

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