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South Africa’s top public health experts sat down to discuss the safety of e-cigarettes. The verdict? Stay away.

Unsafe terminations in Malawi may be curbed after a new law is enacted, but it’s just the first step

The government's focus on small-scale irrigation has given hope and sustenance to some districts.

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.

Refugees run the border crossing gauntlet of lions, rivers, rape and theft hoping for a better life.

It was hailed as a revolution in private investment in healthcare in Africa but almost a decade after it was opened, Lesotho’s only specialist hospital takes up almost a third of the country’s entire health budget. Now, we may finally know why.

A new tool may help to keep workers who breathe in silica dust safe from silicosis — at less than R50 a prick.

Can the health minister fix our health system and what will it take? Here’s what Mkhize’s character, views and his past experience as a doctor tell us.

Will local facial hair campaigners be able to raise more than last year's R7-million for men's health issues?

With a black beret “à la the EFF” and fire-engine red scrubs, Ebrahim Variava is not scared to speak out against the ills of a broken public health system — something that got him suspended from his post as head of internal medicine at the Tshepong Hospital in Klerksdorp in 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 crisis. Meet the doctor for whom patients are always the priority.

This silent killer stalks expecting mothers around the world and is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in South Africa. But still many women can’t name it — or identify its symptoms. But if knowledge is power, is it enough to stem this deadly tide? Ghana is hoping to find out.

In rural Kenya, a group of strong-willed women is giving traumatised young runaways a second chance at life.

An app, a few volunteers and buy-in from doctors can make the frontlines a kinder place for patients, staff and families.

The ruthless quest for gold in eastern Cameroon has left the landscape peppered with deadly open pits.

Living in a settlement named after Nelson Mandela doesn't mean you have the basics.

Undaunted by apartheid and Aids, she has made all the difference to those otherwise abandoned.