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Treatment for the debilitating obstetric injury has been scarce in Uganda, but organisations are helping to fill the gap, writes Mara Kardas-Nelson.

General anaesthetic is supposed to make surgery painless. Now there’s evidence that one person in 20 may be awake when doctors think they’re under.

The quest for better working conditions leaves striking doctors with a tough decision but they might not have to choose.

Homeopathy may now be regulated but many remedies remain untested.

Here's how northwest Kenya gets nomadic families to health services.

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 other homemade remedies.

For many tuberculosis (TB) patients, the road to a cure begins with a simple test.Today, South Africa is rolling out the world’s best technology...

Cat' or 'intash' joins tik and nyaope in the playground as dealers target bored children.

Sperm washing, assisted insemination & long hospital waits — if you were lucky. This is what falling pregnant when you were HIV-positive used to look like. But things are changing for the better.

25,000 grave violations were committed against children in conflict in 2019, says the UN, which hopes to highlight issue with new international day.

Ivory Park's Operation Thiba Nyaope provides support for addicts and their affected families.

Depression among the elderly is largely overlooked, but exercise can help to counter it.

Lesbian teenagers have a lower chance of getting a sexually transmitted infection, but the threat remains. Even though South Africa’s sex education curriculum includes all the right lessons to help pupils of all sexual identities have safe sex in theory, the information that filters through to them is still up to individual teachers.

It starts with a swab but does it end with a diagnosis? Why the trickiest part of DIY HIV testing happens after the test.

Older antibiotic staples are no longer moneymakers. But as modern bugs evolve to outwit them, very few new drugs are ready to take their place.

Find out which nordic nation radically cut teenage smoking, drinking and drug use and how they did it.