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Disease-spreading mozzies may be getting wise to our best defences, but science is fighting back.

Why would young, single African women not take free drugs that could potentially save them from contracting a life-threatening infection?

With proper medication, healthy living and a positive outlook, patients can lead good lives.

For many people with severe mental illnesses, these special wards can be a lifeline and the first step to care — if they can get there.

For centuries, traditional religious practices have preserved the sacred forests of the Bijagós archipelago. Now missionaries are muscling in.

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

Is Kenya, currently plagued by a cholera outbreak, about to show the world the energy wealth hidden in human waste?

Autistic children experience the world differently, but this doesn’t stop them from learning.

Scores of women in Argentina could be facing life in prison for what health experts say are obstetric emergencies such as miscarriages.

Abused women from war-torn countries who have fled to SA for safety often face more maltreatment here.

Terminally ill patients in the province have little access to pain relief, or basic care. Here's one man's story.

Yvette Raphael describes herself as a ‘professional protester, sjambok feminist and hater of trash’. Government officials would likely refer to her as ‘a rebel’. She’s fought for equality her entire life, she says. And she’s scared of no one.

The minister insists there is no problem, but too many health centre cupboards are bare.

Take a look at life after war for the women abducted by Ugandan rebel Joseph Kony.

This tablet can help to protect the country's young women from contracting HIV.

For decades, we’ve struggled to solve the riddle: How do you get reluctant men to test for HIV. Could we finally have an answer?