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If the progress we see today is anything to go by, it means we are closer than ever to having an HIV vaccine.

Homeopathy may now be regulated but many remedies remain untested.

Increasing access to health services will prevent many mothers and newborn babies from dying.

Johannes Mnguni believes his wife would still be alive if a Mpumalanga clinic had done its job.

In a binge-drinking community parents often give their children alcohol, or they get it in the womb.

The HIV and TB epidemics are being exacerbated by a chronic shortage of health workers in prisons.

Health experts are at loggerheads over research that raises questions about the possible link between the contraceptive injection and HIV.

Reusable sanitary towels are cheaper than regular pads and tampons but the state is failing to distribute these to schoolgirls from poor families.

The council issued an incorrect media statement on its Tim Noakes hearing on Friday. But its media blunders are not new.

Some women find it hard to leave their abusers for economic and emotional reasons and feel 'stuck' in their situation.

When Demelza Bush was a little girl, she knew she wasn't. And they weren't a boy either.

SA’s disability allowance eases the financial and emotional burden of people with tuberculosis.

A private-public partnership is gaining ground in the fight against the disease in the city's slums.

State officials have visited Dihlabeng and the Free State health MEC says he will follow suit.

Gender activists have welcomed talks between two departments about ways to reduce teenage pregnancies, but no decision has yet been taken.

Free State Health MEC Benny Malakoane has accused the M&G of sensationalist reporting, but warned that his department will run out of money this year.