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

South Africa is pumping more money into female condom distribution. We look at what's on the market and what's to come for the femidom.

There are many off the shelf products to help your sex life, but little is known about them – and their effects.

This man from rural Eastern Cape had to travel all the way to Cuba to make his dream of becoming a doctor come true. Now, he is back home and treating patients at the same hospital his mother used to sell fruit in front of when he was a boy.

Men can help to prevent new HIV infections by showing up for their partners. Here’s how:

From grandmothers to gravediggers, the sudden, suffocating deaths of the coronavirus pandemic is affecting people in all sectors of South African society. Here’s one Cape Town family’s story of life after death. 

Outreach workers say the practice making headlines isn’t as widespread as it’s been made out to be as they rush to prevent more from trying it.

Strong winds, trees being cut down and drought drive sand to pile up and swallow the houses of the ancient seaside town Hobyo, Somalia. Will promises to green the desert save families who have been forced to move before?

Partners and families allegedly drugged women and in some cases even physically restrained them as doctors performed the procedure.

Women who have been forced to go without their usual birth control shot are now facing the consequences of months-long shortages.

Lesbian teenagers have a lower chance of getting a sexually transmitted infection, but the threat remains. Even though South Africa’s sex education curriculum includes all the right lessons to help pupils of all sexual identities have safe sex in theory, the information that filters through to them is still up to individual teachers.

Botched births and infections can leave many babies with a life-long inheritance: Cerebral palsy. Many will be dependent on caregivers for their entire lives, but could switching up the way we think about treating the condition provide children and carers some respite?

Take a look at the newest HIV treatment set to hit South Africa's shores in 2019.

Rwanda, too, has succeeded in doing what this country has only been talking about for 18 years.

Korogocho is one of Nairobi’s most dangerous slums, where rape and robbery are common. Beatrice Nyariara is helping women aged 55 to 90 to fight back.

When a few months of treatment costs as much as a house, some patients are taking their lives and the law into their own hands to survive.