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One in four Zimbabweans suffers from mental illness, but untrained female health workers are setting a new benchmark for the treatment of patients.

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

This tablet can help to protect the country's young women from contracting HIV.

Until now, the national and provincial health departments have not been able to say where services are provided. Here's how we found them.

Bontle Mabe turned to a loan shark to fund her abortion after she was turned away for five days in a row at her local clinic.

How we found the country's 'missing' abortion providers – and mapped contraception services too.Bhekisisa has created #SizaMap, South Africa's first searchable map of free abortion providers....

A disease that claims the lives of two children under five a minute worldwide has hit drought-stricken Kenya hard, its spread driven by malnutrition.

The products themselves could be dangerous and are likely to encourage high-risk sexual behaviour.

The country can't produce its own paediatric heart surgeons. But that may be beginning to change, starting in Cape Town.

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

For decades, we’ve struggled to solve the riddle: How do you get reluctant men to test for HIV. Could we finally have an answer?

Find out which nordic nation radically cut teenage smoking, drinking and drug use and how they did it.

Abandoned as children, women in Harare are now teaching one another to fight for their futures.

Autistic children experience the world differently, but this doesn’t stop them from learning.

State cancer patients have nowhere to turn, even if their cancer is treatable.

Early screening for cervical cancer can be a lifesaver but are nonprofit organisations enough to fill the gap in KZN's crumbling system?