The organisation Rainbow Riots in Uganda hopes to open the country's first centre for the LGBTI community that would also provide health information. (Tania Marti, Guardian)

Minister condemns plans for first LGBTI centre as ‘criminal act’

Samuel Okiror

Ugandan campaigners are warned they will break the country's anti-homosexuality law if they open the safe space.

The South African police took a vow to protect people living in the country. Apparently that doesn't apply to sex workers like Cleopatra. (Dylan Bush)

This is what it's like being a sex worker: 'Police dragged me out in public naked'

Dylan Bush

Go inside one of the country's most dangerous jobs.

E-cigarettes are gaining popularity, but are they really as safe as the industry claims? (Reuters)

The tobacco industry says vaping is 95% safer than smoking. The truth is less clear.

Joan van Dyk

When the vapour dissipates – what do we really know about e-cigarettes?

Research shows that drug-resistant TB accounts for a quarter of the 10-million deaths that might be associated with antimicrobial resistance by 2020.

This kills more than 700 of us each day. Now, the UN wants to do something about it.

Yogan Pillay

In a historic first, the UN just held a high-level meeting on TB. There was one on lifestyle diseases too. But did these sittings achieve anything?

A new report references Life Esidimeni as an example of what not to do with mental healthcare users. (Feliz Dlangamandla, Gallo)

People are still being shackled and tortured for living with this disease

Roxy de Villiers

The Life Esidimeni tragedy makes headlines again in a new global report.

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In the past, HIV-positive people weren't allowed to donate their organs. But that could change. (Luis Robayo, AFP)

What you need to know about SA’s historic liver transplant from an HIV-positive donor

How could a baby get an organ from a person living with HIV and not automatically contract the virus? The experts weigh in.

Killing two birds with one stone. In Kenya, getting cattle vaccinated is used to bring healthcare to men. (Christabel Ligami)

What do a herd of goats, a few cattle, and a baby have in common? Find out

Here's how northwest Kenya gets nomadic families to health services.

Eddie Mhlanga is one of the authors of the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act. (Dylan Bush)

'I opened her up and found her womb was rotten from the infection'

Obstetrician Eddie Mhlanga often had to attend to women who had unsafe abortions during apartheid, when abortion was illegal in South Africa.

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