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In the Free State, access to health services can depend on who you know, as the tragic case of one woman illustrates.

Before 2011, this country couldn’t screen for cervical cancer let alone prevent it. Since then everything’s changed.

Refugees can flee their countries, but they can't escape the trauma of war.

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.

Pharmacy expert Andy Gray is the “insider’s insider” in South Africa’s public health sphere. Get to know him better here.

Homeopathy may now be regulated but many remedies remain untested.

Could psychosocial programmes turn extremists into moderates?

The favelas are served by teams of community workers, who are the doctors' eyes and ears.

Almost one in four babies born at public hospitals come into the world via c-section but is it costing some women their lives?

Mental health patients in Johannesburg's East Rand are hard hit by the unavailability of medication.

A programme with the health department sees motorbikes being used to deliver drugs to people in far-flung places who can't afford the fare.

Loss of this sense affects taste and also damages a person’s sense of emotional place in the world.

Hospice isn't just a place to die but funding cuts – and that perception – could be killing our chances of a kinder death as refuges close

For transgender people, gender-affirming care can be a matter of life and death. But medical aids still see it as a choice rather than a necessity.

Are social media algorithms designed to prey the mental health of women and people of colour?