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Healthworkers are being attacked by Myanmar’s military — observers say it’s a tactic of war.

A mother's love led her to South Africa to find a school for her son with autism.

Community chemists say racial profiling and gated network are putting them out of business.

These ATMs can decrease the number of patients in clinics but health workers are not helping to achieve that goal.

SA's listeria epidemic is over. Take a look at the detectives who traced the epidemic's source in this feature from our archives.

When hospitals are few and far between, these shelters become homes away from home for expecting mothers. Find out how countries around the world are getting mothers to book in for better births starting right here close to home.

South Africa has disability grants but a doctor deemed his tuberculosis patient was not poor enough.

More than three decades into the HIV epidemic, some conversations haven't become any easier. This is one of them.

Personal beliefs sometimes collide with healthcare providers’ professional responsibilities.

Where traditional beliefs are more real than textbooks, treating mental illness is a balancing act for sangomas and medical doctors alike.

Scientists and campaigners warn that factories in coastal villages are wreaking environmental and economic havoc.

Obstetrician Eddie Mhlanga often had to attend to women who had unsafe abortions during apartheid, when abortion was illegal in South Africa.

Healthcare for Kenya's semi-nomadic communities comes in an unlikely form of camels, who carry medicine to the country's most remote villages.

Many women suffer from menstrual cramps extreme enough to confine them to bed, but treatment is available that can provide effective relief.

Why the woes facing South Africa’s Thuthuzela Care Centres may not be as unique as we thought.

A Johannesburg director has taken up the continuing tragedy of botched circumcisions.