We always tell moms breast is best but sometimes milk doesn't come when babies do. This breast milk bank is filling in these gaps.

[LISTEN] Bottling change: Inside SA’s breast milk banks

Gavin Fischer, Mia Malan

We always tell moms breast is best but sometimes milk doesn't come when babies do. This breast milk bank is filling in these gaps.

TB remains a leading cause of death in South Africa. (Sydelle Willow Smith)

Anyone can catch this drug-resistant bug. Surviving treatment is another story.

Kristen van Schie

For years, catching this drug-resistant bacteria meant painful treatment that risked your hearing and mental health. Now, that could be changing.

South African doctors are giving antibiotics to healthy patients, a new study revealed. (Gallo)

Undercover researchers went into doctors' rooms. You won't believe what they found.

Joan van Dyk

New research may finally tell us why SA is always among the first to sound the alarm over drug-resistant strains.

This family's son, Sinoxolo Hlabanzana, died while he was illegally detained at a deadly deportation centre outside Johannesburg. A month after our first story, his family still has no new information. (Supplied)

Bosasa to dead toddler's family: If you want answers, you'll have to PAIA us

Joan van Dyk

About 15 years after their son died while illegally detained at a deportation centre outside Johannesburg, this family still hasn't found his grave.

In Sierra Leone’s island-bound district of Bonthe, Francess Kenjah travelled seven hours to reach the nearest hospital to deliver her baby. (Valeria Scrilatti)

This is what it’s like to give birth in the world’s most dangerous country for moms

Emanuela Zuccalà

When a river and several hours of dirt roads stand between you & the nearest hospital, giving birth can be deadly. One nurse is hoping to change that.

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This month, the New African boasts a shocking headline:

Did the apartheid government inject black people with HIV? We look to science.

This month, the New African boasts a shocking headline: "We deliberately spread Aids in South Africa." Could that be true?

A child at a clinic in Bamako. The country’s child mortality rate is among the highest in the world. (Muso)

This president is putting his money where his mouth is when it comes to an NHI

Mali joins the ranks of countries such as Sierra Leone, South Africa & Burkina Faso to provide free healthcare to moms and tots.

National guidelines say babies should get nothing but their mother’s milk for the first six months of life. But fewer than one in 10 women makes it to six months. (AFP)

‘I thought I’d breastfeed my baby for a year. That dream was short-lived’

We tell moms to exclusively breastfeed. But we don’t tell them about all the things that get in the way of that, including depression.

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