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Bosasa to dead toddler’s family: If you want answers, you’ll have to PAIA us
About 15 years after their son died while illegally detained at a deportation centre outside Johannesburg, this family still hasn't found his grave.
Could this birth trend make for more serene deliveries?
Water births are a growing phenomenon in South Africa and globally. But this birth method is controversial – scientific evidence is lacking.
Nursing Zim prisons back to health
One man's mission to bring sanitary sanity and dignity to those kept behind bars.
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.
‘The people told me they are coming to take me away tonight’
Where traditional beliefs are more real than textbooks, treating mental illness is a balancing act for sangomas and medical doctors alike.
Save a little money, save a little life
A grassroots Ugandan health initiative has significantly reduced maternal deaths.
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:
mhealth’s power & pitfalls: An SMS a day keeps teens alive
This clinic used monthly SMSes to remind HIV-positive teens to collect their pills until one day... Take a look at the power and pitfalls of mhealth.
Kampala is seizing TB by the horns
A private-public partnership is gaining ground in the fight against the disease in the city's slums.
Autism and its uncommon angels
Dembe Ndou learned to play piano in no time at all, but simply chatting is a complex challenge.
Violence, pregnant teenagers and booze at De Aar’s end of the world
Alcohol abuse breeds apathy and joblessness, and fuels abuse in an ever more vicious cycle.
Big Tobacco faces landmark legal case over poverty wages
Lawyers argue that while farming families toil over backbreaking work in desperate poverty, British American Tobacco is reaping the rewards.
Fact Check: No, SA does not weigh in as the world’s 3rd most obese...
Africa Check digs into the data to reveal the surprising truth behind the widely cited statistic
‘I will rape them personally, those drunkard women in the short dresses’
In this township, alcohol makes violent men close to three times more likely to rape a woman.Brown Lekekela heads over to the flipchart that...
Bianca learns to Beat It
An eighth-grade teenager shows how funky and strong her fight against a four-letter word is. Mia Malan reports.
Cruel dilemma: To terminate or not to terminate
The joy of motherhood is killed by a moral and ethical dilemma when doctors advise termination of a pregnancy.