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Is getting all you need from one health team far fetched? Actually not. It's one field where the public health system beats the private one.

Less than 15% of patients seek out care for this vicious form of gangrene.

Dear Tisa, you have a point but we’ve got a reason to be wary.

Women in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo are allegedly being asked for sexual favours in exchange for Ebola treatment.

Abortion services only got a national “how to” document for doctors 23 years after termination of pregnancy was legalised in South Africa. And while the new rules go a long way to remove barriers to ending a pregnancy, non-profits say crucial information such as a simple list of telephone numbers is still lacking.

No, South Africa's alcohol ban wasn't the only thing that helped lower hospital trauma admissions recently, but it did play a substantial role.

Not up to the daily dilemma of what to pack your little ones for lunch? Beef up your children’s lunch boxes with these quick tips.

COVID-19 brought the public and private health sectors together. But while the estranged bedfellows were making amends in the Western Cape, looting of COVID-19 relief money may have further eroded the trust of a vital third party — the public — in the government’s ability to protect the National Health Insurance Fund.

Black women, beware: your pursuit of straight, silky locks may be detrimental to your health.

Researchers once again confirmed: It’s impossible for HIV-positive people on treatment to transmit the virus through sex — this time among gay men.

The state’s proposed certificate of need will not address inequities in rural healthcare.

Most of us would rather not know what happens to our bodies after death. But that breakdown gives birth to new life in unexpected ways.

Leaders of Zimbabwe's Apostolic sects are warming to the idea of women giving birth at health clinics.

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

COVID variants are new versions of the virus that are smarter at surviving. But before we can understand what these changed forms mean for vaccines, we first need to go back to the basics. We take you through the evolution of the virus and what this means for your body’s defences.

Until two years ago, it was Sibonelo Gumede’s job to help developers get rid of people who used drugs in neighbourhoods. Then his life changed.