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Some of your favourite comfort food could be concealing a killer.

Refugees can flee their countries, but they can't escape the trauma of war.

Desperate to reach Europe, migrants from Africa are travelling to Egypt to sell body parts to pay for their passage.

For grandmothers across Côte d’Ivoire, climate change has had unexpected consequences. Once abundant with crop life, sustenance farming has become an unpredictable nightmare in the country’s villages. Young people of working age are now leaving villages in droves — without their children.

Black women, beware: your pursuit of straight, silky locks may be detrimental to your health.

Abused women from war-torn countries who have fled to SA for safety often face more maltreatment here.

When this toddler died at Leratong Hospital, his body disappeared. Here’s what happened when his parents went back there more than a decade later.

Students are abusing schedule six pills ahead of exams – with the help of their doctors.

Communities are bringing HIV monitoring and dispensing out of the clinics and into their homes.

South Africa lost nearly 100 000 people to TB last year – three-quarters of whom were HIV-positive. Reducing the burden will benefit the economy.

ARVs have stopped children dying, now the former Aids hospice is helping them to thrive.

Access to ARVs is improving, but poor attitudes to patients are aggravating maternal mortality rates.

With terminations outlawed in Kenya, women and girls in its largest slum have to rely on expensive and unreliable under-the-counter pills, toxic chemicals or other homemade remedies.

Girls as young as 10 feel the blade but an extraordinary group is fighting against female genital mutilation (FGM).

Could a new manmade concoction of mundane odours stop malaria?

Doctors say Dihlabeng hospital doesn't have the medicine and staff to help patients.