Fact: Children have sex – Motsoaledi
Denial should not stand in the way of the provision of sexual health services at schools, says Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.
SA’s midwives chart a new course
Scandinavian expertise is helping to train top nurses in how to handle difficult pregnancies.
Water-fed gardens in Malawi ward off starvation – for now
The government's focus on small-scale irrigation has given hope and sustenance to some districts.
How to wean moms off the bottle
Women in South Africa are waking up to the dangers posed by fetal alcohol syndrome.
Gasping for breath: Pneumonia’s deadly toll
A disease that claims the lives of two children under five a minute worldwide has hit drought-stricken Kenya hard, its spread driven by malnutrition.
‘No home, no money, no medicine – but who cares? I don’t exist’
Introduce harm-reduction and HIV programmes – especially for heroin users – before it's too late.
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.
‘They made me feel like a murderer’: Stigma endangers women seeking legal abortions
Bontle Mabe turned to a loan shark to fund her abortion after she was turned away for five days in a row at her local clinic.
Healthcare heroes heal the system
Clinical associates are changing the medical sector by freeing up doctors to do more.
PrEPing young women for the HIV prevention pill
This tablet can help to protect the country's young women from contracting HIV.
Football like you’ve never seen it: On the pitch with this blind soccer team
Blind football represents hope and belonging for Egypt's one million visually impaired.
Beer and stinky feet could be a fatal combination – for mosquitos
Could a new manmade concoction of mundane odours stop malaria?
Go inside the trucker craze fuelling a blackmarket in dangerous ‘sex enhancers’
The products themselves could be dangerous and are likely to encourage high-risk sexual behaviour.
KZN cancer patients sent home with panados as treatment waiting lists grow
State cancer patients have nowhere to turn, even if their cancer is treatable.
Diepsloot: Where men think it’s their right to rape
Crime stats released in 2015 reported a drop in rape cases, but experts say this is because fewer people are bothering to report rapes to the police.
“People have normalised rape… but no one talks about abortion. When I do, the...
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...