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Poor oral hygiene doesn't just affect your gums; it can also lead to impotence.

A marathon runner with prostate cancer uses his skill to promote awareness and encourage testing.

Crime stats released in 2015 reported a drop in rape cases, but experts say this is because fewer people are bothering to report rapes to the police.

There’s less demand for human ivermectin in South Africa when the country is in between COVID waves. But nobody is tracking how many people may be using the animal formulation.

Desperate to reach Europe, migrants from Africa are travelling to Egypt to sell body parts to pay for their passage.

Eastern Cape royals are campaigning to use medical circumcision in traditional rituals.

Alopecia or hair loss can devastate your self-esteem, unless you hold your head up high.

One man's mission to bring sanitary sanity and dignity to those kept behind bars.

Healthcare facilities are working to ensure migrant workers are never far from care.

Are faith-based NGOs breaking the law when they refuse to give women information on where to terminate their pregnancies?

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

A vasectomy is a permanent form of contraception for men. During this surgical procedure, the tubes that take sperm from the testicles to the glands that make semen are cut — in about the time of a lunch break.

Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt takes a look at the global sensation — the tramadol dance — that’s topping the charts in Africa’s effort to curb drug abuse.

Mabele helped lead the fight for antiretrovirals in SA. A memorial service will be held for her today. This was her last interview with Bhekisisa.

Scientists and campaigners warn that factories in coastal villages are wreaking environmental and economic havoc.

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