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The process could transform manufacturing and help the 30 million people worldwide in need of artificial limbs and braces.

In 2020, 1.9-million children were stillborn according to a new report from the World Health Organisation. Read how one woman’s experience of stillbirth inspired her to start a mental health support group for parents who lost a child during pregnancy.

For transgender people, gender-affirming care can be a matter of life and death. But medical aids still see it as a choice rather than a necessity.

When a child is emotionally manipulated by one parent to hate the other, the legal system and therapists grapple with how to help families repair their relationships. Here’s why so-called parental alienation cases are contentious.

A man has taken two specialists to task for a misdiagnosis that nearly cost him his foot.

Jacket would detect symptoms up to four times faster than a doctor.

South Africa plans to roll out treatment for opioid addiction to all government health facilities by 2028, according to a draft of the country’s sixth HIV action plan. Read one person’s story of recovery here.

Bond, James Bond: The source of the listeria outbreak will likely be found by a gene-sequencing machine named after the famous agent 007. (Delwyn Verasamy)

After three years of deliberation and research, the South African health department launches flavoured condoms.

Former president Nelson Mandela regretted not acting on HIV during his presidency, but he made up for it in spades.

Technology has cut diagnosis waiting times, getting infants on to treatment sooner.

In this province, the agricultural and mining sectors draw thousands of workers each year – and then they disappear. Here’s why we need to find them.

Inside the Kenyan village that began as a refuge for survivors of sexual violence.

Choosing between eating & bleeding through your uniform has a cost. Take a look at the reality behind the budget in this one from our archives.

This South African has been quarantined for weeks. He doesn’t mind spending time alone, but these days he finds himself more and more puzzled by people, their habits, and strangely their attitude towards pens.

Meandering rivers and lush forests offered rich pickings for generations of farming and fishing communities. Then came the oil companies.