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Family planning is not a luxury to everyone. Melinda Gates talks about why she has dedicated so much of her time to helping women plan their families.

The HPCSA will rule on Wouter Basson's fate on December 18 after a five-year long inquiry into his actions during apartheid.

A study shows that 44% of heavy smokers kicked the habit after receiving magnetic stimulation.

SureTouch does not claim to be a substitute for proper breast cancer screening, but patients are being misled.

There are many advantages to breastfeeding but should mothers be bribed to do it?

Undaunted by apartheid and Aids, she has made all the difference to those otherwise abandoned.

Two young women are proving to the world that the most deadly strain of TB can be beaten.

South Africa has the means and opportunity to keep its healthcare professionals.

Mentally disabled people in the rural Eastern Cape are considered worthless, even evil. When girls are sexually abused, mothers are no longer shocked.

Our children’s lives were lost due to the negligence of the Mpumalanga health system, say grieving mothers.

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

The Eastern Cape health department claims hospital staff misled a government inspection team to create a bad impression.

Four Messina Hospital staff members, who are also shop stewards for the union Nehawu, have been dismissed for inciting strike action against a doctor.

Finance minister Pravin Gordhan’s "careful control of the wage Bill" will impact negatively on health service delivery, says a health economist.

The country is fighting the intellectual property laws that hiked up the cost of its HIV programme.

An antioxidant found in tea brewed from the indigenous plant offers hope for new treatments.