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Few governments are prepared to care for the people forced to leave their countries as a result of conflict or climate change. Here's why.

Rural hospitals and clinics struggle to attract or retain senior healthcare professionals. Health workers who grew up in rural towns can plug the gap as they are more likely to work at facilities in far-flung places than their urban counterparts.

Codeine is found in mild painkillers and cough syrups, and is sometimes mixed with Sprite or alcohol to make a drink called “lean”.

Zackie Achmat was one of the most vociferous voices against former president Thabo Mbeki’s HIV denialism in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He now lives in downtown Cape Town and fights state capture — and broken trains.

Anne von Gottberg and Cheryl Cohen are two of South Africa’s foremost scientists. We’ve got them and their colleagues to thank for the country’s world class surveillance of SARS-CoV-2. But this powerful duo are also experts on how to bridge divides — and married.

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has promised to get state facilities running to the highest standards.

Having banned female genital cutting, his ousting was good for democracy, but but bad for women's bodies.

Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt takes a look at the global sensation — the tramadol dance — that’s topping the charts in Africa’s effort to curb drug abuse.

Prostate cancer accounts for nearly a quarter of all cancers in black men. Find out how to protect yourself and the ones you love.

Healthy lungs don’t mean you’re off the hook: tuberculosis can take root anywhere in the body.

Disease-spreading mozzies may be getting wise to our best defences, but science is fighting back.

‘Baby bins' can mean the difference between life – and death at the bottom of a trash can.

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

There are too few psychiatrists, so a foundation is using a Canadian model to rehabilitate people.

In 2017, Lesotho became the first African country to legalise cannabis. Nearly six years later, the industry is yet to change the country’s fortunes.

In 2016, when renowned South African cardiologist Ntobeko Ntusi stepped into the role as head and chair of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) department of medicine, he took on both responsibilities and a legacy that most would have baulked at, amidst much scrutiny. He spoke to Sean Christie about his life’s trajectory, shortly before he joins the South African Medical Research Council as its new president and CEO.