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The country's health system is ravaged, but a team of volunteer doctors visit regularly: operating on the desperate and training local medical staff.

The joy of motherhood is killed by a moral and ethical dilemma when doctors advise termination of a pregnancy.

Johannes Mnguni believes his wife would still be alive if a Mpumalanga clinic had done its job.

When Mark died, emergency services left his body on the pavement in central Pretoria for hours.

Grave robbing in the alleged pursuit of science haunts the history of biological anthropology. See how one university is righting history's wrongs.

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

Take a look at life after war for the women abducted by Ugandan rebel Joseph Kony.

Cerebral palsy does not only affect one person, it alters the lives of the family as well.

When kids at risk of suicide can talk to trained friends & family, they're seven times less likely to die, says one of the world's largest studies.

For many tuberculosis (TB) patients, the road to a cure begins with a simple test.Today, South Africa is rolling out the world’s best technology...

There are too few psychiatrists, so a foundation is using a Canadian model to rehabilitate people.

A quarter of public clinics ran out of HIV and TB medication last year, a survey has found.

Jacket would detect symptoms up to four times faster than a doctor.

Blood donations are scant in South Sudan as the process is frowned upon and treated with suspicion by locals.

South Africans in Wuhan are set to come back home on Friday, but our secret journaller has a few final thoughts to share in this final instalment of our series of first-hand accounts from citizens quarantined in China.

Government facilities are trumping their larnier colleagues in providing HIV services.