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

In many ways, violence is like cholera, passing from person to person and treating it in similar ways is working to reduce it.

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

When this queer woman's activism put her at the centre of a village-ordered hit, a sex worker saved her life. Go behind their story of love, life, fear and solidarity in one of the most homophobic countries in the world.

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

The HPV vaccine roll-out is prompting parents to rethink how they talk to children about sex.

What makes the world’s most successful children’s TV programmes so addictive – and so strange? Linda Geddes explores the research on kids’ TV, what it’s teaching us about childhood development, and how that can help make programmes for the better.

Healthcare for Kenya's semi-nomadic communities comes in an unlikely form of camels, who carry medicine to the country's most remote villages.

When Mark died, emergency services left his body on the pavement in central Pretoria for hours.

In South Africa, two outbreaks are colliding and one thing may shape the future of both.

A horrifying experience at an illegal abortion provider led Gaopalelwe Phalaetsile to use social media to help women access safe abortion services

The population assessments of the epidemic in sub-Sahara yields information of benefit to patients and to each nation’s plan of action

Across the continent, women are helping to reimagine a sacred rite of passage in an effort to honour their cultures and spare their bodies.

Government facilities are trumping their larnier colleagues in providing HIV services.

In the state sector, not everyone is equal. Some of us have to pay an arm, a leg and a full working day.

Poor people who have fled their countries are expected to pay steep rates for treatment at government hospitals in Gauteng.