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There are more unplanned pregnancies in countries where men hold more power in society, likely because women don’t have a say in how many children they have. The opposite is true when men support their partner’s use of contraception.

The Eastern Cape's Tower Hospital was billed as the country's next "Life Esidimeni".

Having a baby in sub-Saharan Africa is riskier than anywhere else according to the latest State of the World's Mothers report.

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

A month after she was wheeled out of a North West hospital in a barrow, Ntombizodwa Matthews met her end. Her family blames politics for her death.

Healthcare that is accessible to all is the foundation on which an equitable and efficient system must be built.

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

The residents of a Nigerian village had no health services, save for traditional methods, to treat those with a fever and a rash.

Hospital porters move around facilities to help transport patients from the moment they’re admitted until they’re discharged. Why do they get so little PPE?

Police are inadequately trained and social services too poorly resourced to deal with all of the reported cases of child abuse.

By 1927, Anglo American had obtained a controlling interest in a decades’ old lead mine north of Lusaka. Today, the mine may be closed, but its legacy lives on in the tiny bodies of the children that grow up in its shadow and who carry traces of its ore in their blood. Their poisoning is just the latest in a cycle that will leave lasting intellectual and physical burdens on them and their children for generations to come.

Having a chronic illness can raise your risk of depression. For diabetics, the blood sugar high and lows of everyday life take an extra toll.

There will be no increase in the tax on sugary drinks until 2025, the Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana announced during his budget speech on Wednesday.

The three C’s: Collusion, competition and corruption. There’ll be a renewed push to safeguard your money when it comes to healthcare, but will it work?

Madiba's prison past may have played a role in his recurrent lung infections.

When South Africa introduced self-tests for HIV, far more people knew their status and were put on treatment. The same could happen for cervical cancer, argues this cancer advocate, and the country already has the networks, testing capacity and funding in place to make a project like this work.