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

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

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

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.

This country must find ways to keep girls in school and educate them about HIV prevention.

McCord Hospital in Durban will be sold to the government in a deal that will be concluded next year.

Skewed state funding has left many centres dependent on fees that patients can't afford, writes Mara Kardas-Nelson.

HIV+ people on ARVs are now living longer lifespans. But the virus's associated diseases could put an unbearable strain on the health system.

Unless the state's plan to curb maternal deaths is wholly implemented, it won't make a dent.

Eastern Cape royals are campaigning to use medical circumcision in traditional rituals.

Two young people speak out about life, and love, and the very real risk of rejection.

One man's mission to bring sanitary sanity and dignity to those kept behind bars.