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About 15 years after their son died while illegally detained at a deportation centre outside Johannesburg, this family still hasn't found his grave.

Water births are a growing phenomenon in South Africa and globally. But this birth method is controversial – scientific evidence is lacking.

One man's mission to bring sanitary sanity and dignity to those kept behind bars.

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.

Where traditional beliefs are more real than textbooks, treating mental illness is a balancing act for sangomas and medical doctors alike.

A grassroots Ugandan health initiative has significantly reduced maternal deaths.

Men can help to prevent new HIV infections by showing up for their partners. Here’s how:

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.

A private-public partnership is gaining ground in the fight against the disease in the city's slums.

Dembe Ndou learned to play piano in no time at all, but simply chatting is a complex challenge.

Alcohol abuse breeds apathy and joblessness, and fuels abuse in an ever more vicious cycle.

Lawyers argue that while farming families toil over backbreaking work in desperate poverty, British American Tobacco is reaping the rewards.

Africa Check digs into the data to reveal the surprising truth behind the widely cited statistic

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...

An eighth-grade teenager shows how funky and strong her fight against a four-letter word is. Mia Malan reports.

The joy of motherhood is killed by a moral and ethical dilemma when doctors advise termination of a pregnancy.