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A parent’s place? Meet the women fighting for space at SA’s rural hospitals
Botched births and infections can leave many babies with a life-long inheritance: Cerebral palsy. Many will be dependent on caregivers for their entire lives, but could switching up the way we think about treating the condition provide children and carers some respite?
This is what it’s like to give birth in the world’s most dangerous country...
When a river and several hours of dirt roads stand between you & the nearest hospital, giving birth can be deadly. One nurse is hoping to change that.
Silent killer lurks in miners’ lungs
Silicosis might appear only 15 years after exposure to gold ore dust, long after they have gone home. Heidi Swart reports.
Love & other drugs: Men could make all the difference in keeping your baby...
Men can help to prevent new HIV infections by showing up for their partners. Here’s how:
‘Cancer treatment in the North West is impossible’
Activists say that at least one patient has been trying to get treatment since 2013.
Schoolgirls in this country face compulsory tests for pregnancy, genital mutilation
Girls in Kenya’s Narok County will also be made to reveal the identities of babies’ fathers.
The WHO, the drug & women’s right to choose: The story behind dolutegravir
Take a look at the newest HIV treatment set to hit South Africa's shores in 2019.
Independent pharmacies take on medical aid ‘bullies’
Community chemists say racial profiling and gated network are putting them out of business.
The promise and peril of ditching South Africa’s psychiatric hospitals
Community mental health care can be better for patients and health systems if it's done right.
Find out how one organisation is making it work.
Sex life leaving a bad taste in your mouth?
Poor oral hygiene doesn't just affect your gums; it can also lead to impotence.
Medical aids have dentists over a barrel
Dentists say the reduced rates paid out by medical schemes are putting them out of business.
South Sudan is bleeding itself dry
Blood donations are scant in South Sudan as the process is frowned upon and treated with suspicion by locals.
Harsh prison air left mark on Madiba
Madiba's prison past may have played a role in his recurrent lung infections.
Myths and methadone: Will Egypt’s laws bend to the rising tide of drug abuse?
The real revolution is yet to come when it relates to the country’s opioid epidemic.
Local is lekker: How this Kenyan hospital began to make its own supply of...
Every year, hundreds of thousands of children die gasping for air. This could help to change that.
‘Juju curse’ binds trafficked women into sex slavery
Traditional West African ‘healers’ and Sicilian psychiatrists are struggling to help free Nigerian women forced into prostitution.