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Eastern Cape royals are campaigning to use medical circumcision in traditional rituals.

Doctors say Dihlabeng hospital doesn't have the medicine and staff to help patients.

SA's listeria epidemic is over. Take a look at the detectives who traced the epidemic's source in this feature from our archives.

Photojournalist, Seif Kousmate, photographed and interviewed current and former slaves in Mauritania and got imprisoned by police in the process.

Some of your favourite comfort food could be concealing a killer.

In Kivalo, where cyclones, overfishing and rising seas threaten livelihoods, beekeeping offers an unlikely alternative to fishing.

The pandemic’s impact is long-term: the UN warns that it could lead to 13 million more child marriages over a decade.

Traditional and Western healers team up to treat patients with HIV and tuberculosis because many people consult more than one health system.

The state's hopes for the nonsurgical circumcision device rest on its acceptance in initiation rituals.

Somalia is facing a humanitarian crisis. Many people have been displaced due to climate change-induced droughts, and conflict between the army and al-Shabaab has left many regions without food.

Political, security and cultural complications – not least a refusal to believe that Ebola exists – have thwarted efforts to overcome DRC’s deadly outbreak.

Nurses and doctors are 'forced' to treat non-residents, but such care is too often perilous.

Science could be closer to unravelling the riddle of menstruation-related mood disorders

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.

Numbers don't lie: A new report shows how people across the world keep piling on the kilos.

For those with breast cancer, a mastectomy may seem like the best option. But Joanna Moorhead is glad she chose less extensive surgery.