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Sperm washing, assisted insemination & long hospital waits — if you were lucky. This is what falling pregnant when you were...

Death comes for us all and when it does, we hope it’s a good one. We hope it has meaning, we...

One in three French people think vaccines are unsafe, yet vaccine coverage in the country is rising. Here’s how they do...

Women who have been forced to go without their usual birth control shot are now facing the consequences of months-long shortages.

From how to spice up your sex life to the more mundane, “does this look weird to you”, there are some questions you just don’t want to ask your friends and family. Relax. Now, there’s an app for that.

How we found the country's 'missing' abortion providers – and mapped contraception services too.

In a country where pipes can stop short of reaching home, cheap sachets of water sold on the street could be an unlikely solution, but at what cost?

Go inside the international network of women willing to break the law to give people access to termination of pregnancy services.

Bosasa bribed its way into contracts. Meet the four-year-old who paid the price.

Since the country’s rollout, less than a quarter of people who’ve started taking the HIV prevention pill are young women — despite high HIV rates.

The illicit trade in this prescription pain killer has become the stuff of ballads and dance halls but its abuse is...

By making a devastating mistake, this clinic proved it was on the right track.

Take a look at the newest HIV treatment set to hit South Africa's shores in 2019.

When a few months of treatment costs as much as a house, some patients are taking their lives and the law into their own hands to survive.

Political, security and cultural complications – not least a refusal to believe that Ebola exists – have thwarted efforts to overcome...

Almost one in four babies born at public hospitals come into the world via c-section but is it costing some women their lives?