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Already used in countries like Namibia, the ambulances could help cut child and maternal mortality rates.

Science is learning more about your vagina. So should you.

Thousands of women are lured from Nigeria to Italy annually by the promise of a new life, only to find themselves trapped in the sex trade.

A Harare rehabilitation unit offers impaired youngsters free therapy and supports parents too.

A chain of clinics is helping to save lives on Malawi's border with Mozambique.

Infants are less likely to be obese and mothers' have a lower risk of cancer

Healthcare facilities are working to ensure migrant workers are never far from care.

​Nearly 36 000 young Mozambicans have signed up for SMS-based health counselling but will the new technology curb HIV infections?

An adherence club helped almost all patients stay on their treatment.

Technology has cut diagnosis waiting times, getting infants on to treatment sooner.

Fake AIDS "cures" have been the bane of activists fighting for treatment. We discovered a new one and checked in on some we've debunked before.

An HIV prevention pill can reduce HIV-negative people's chances of contracting HIV by more than 90%.

ARVs have transformed Cotlands hospice from a place for the dying into a childcare centre where the living thrive.

Many people can no longer afford hospital treatment and medication, and the number of those with medical aid has fallen by a third.

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

Girls as young as 10 feel the blade but an extraordinary group is fighting against female genital mutilation (FGM).