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Find out what South Africa's coronavirus outbreak means for your mental health and why comfort may be closer than you think.

A marathon runner with prostate cancer uses his skill to promote awareness and encourage testing.

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has promised to get state facilities running to the highest standards.

A new report finds that 90% of Nigerians surveyed support a controversial Act that now also stands between LGBTI communities and healthcare.

Autistic children experience the world differently, but this doesn’t stop them from learning.

A local analysis found promising protective effects of the Pfizer COVID vaccine — even among those who had only received one dose. The data from Discovery Health illustrates how vaccination can lower your risk of infection. But even with this promise, the variants circulating in South Africa means we shouldn’t abandon existing safety measures.

Draft guidelines will look to balance a doctor or nurse's right recuse themselves from performing abortions with a person's right to choose.

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

The COVID-19 outbreak has overwhelmed our laboratories. Many labs can no longer deliver results within 24 hours and for some, these times have stretched up to 14 days. Is it time to South Africa to rethink its testing strategy?

India has dispatched an unlikely hero to promote tuberculosis awareness and battle its stigma.

Restrictions hit the movement of a million or more Sierra Leone citizens living in five districts worst affected by the disease.

Blind football represents hope and belonging for Egypt's one million visually impaired.

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

In the absence of action from the health department, South Africa’s community health workers are once again having to fight for their rights.

Children who are exposed to gangsterism are at greater risk of becoming perpetrators of violence themselves, according to a study in Mannenberg.

Rwanda, too, has succeeded in doing what this country has only been talking about for 18 years.