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Until now, the national and provincial health departments have not been able to say where services are provided. Here's how we found them.

This country tested out a national health insurance. Find out what happened next.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The real revolution is yet to come when it relates to the country’s opioid epidemic.

It’s been eleven years since Zine Konwayo was first diagnosed with tuberculosis, but she is still dealing with the fallout of the disease. Not only has it damaged her lungs, but it’s also preventing her from finding a job.

A study among adolescents and young women in South African universities found that girls who had experienced sexual violence were more likely to report an unintended pregnancy compared with those who had never experienced sexual violence.

Shame doesn't start when menstruation begins. It is built in slow steps.

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.

Rising temperatures linked to outbreaks of dengue fever high in the Kathmandu Valley, experts say.

South Africa plans to roll out treatment for opioid addiction to all government health facilities by 2028, according to a draft of the country’s sixth HIV action plan. Read one person’s story of recovery here.

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.