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Migraine sufferers may not realise that drug overuse can be a large part of the problem.

Deputy Minister of Correctional Services Thabang Makwetla claims that prisoners in SA have access to better healthcare. Africa Check investigates.

Pharmaceutical experts differ over how to limit dependency on a common painkiller.

Twenty years after the genocide, Rwanda’s health system is showing drastic improvements.

A court has ruled that a mother, representing her child, can now apply to claim damages for alleged negligent prenatal misdiagnosis of her child.

Personal accounts from Liberia and Sierra Leone bring home the devastation wrought by the virus.

The department of trade and industry has yet to finalise patent reforms, raising questions that cheaper medication could be blocked intentionally.

Although 65% of South Africans reportedly have been tested for HIV at least once, annual testing figures are much lower.

Refugees run the border crossing gauntlet of lions, rivers, rape and theft hoping for a better life.

A move to ban Wouter Basson from medicine has been met with a tongue-lashing from his lawyer.

The health minister and UNAids are jumping the gun by not consulting activists.

This doctor returned to his home town to live, love and heal.

If the health minister has his way, vaping will soon be regulated like regular smoking because, he says, Big Tobacco is complicit in its rise.

The epidemic could end in 15 years if “fast-track targets” are accelerated in the next six years – if not, infection rates could continue to rise.

Many women consult traditional healers, so it makes sense to enlist these cultural leaders in public health education.

South Africa was the first African country to introduce the expensive but effective pneumococcal vaccine, Prevenar, into its immunisation programme.