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Badly needed and eager to work here, their efforts are being thwarted by a bureaucratic quagmire.

Read an excerpt from the award-winning story that kick-started a campaign to link survivors of rape and gender-based violence to care.

Healthy lungs don’t mean you’re off the hook: tuberculosis can take root anywhere in the body.

Silicosis might appear only 15 years after exposure to gold ore dust, long after they have gone home. Heidi Swart reports.

In the state sector, not everyone is equal. Some of us have to pay an arm, a leg and a full working day.

A grassroots Ugandan health initiative has significantly reduced maternal deaths.

Report unearths neglect in Kenyan institutions, yet discrimination means children may be at risk of being killed if they remain in communities

The population assessments of the epidemic in sub-Sahara yields information of benefit to patients and to each nation’s plan of action

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

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.

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

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.