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When Thami Mabuza found a lump in his chest, he never could have imagined it was breast cancer.

Women said they couldn't afford to boil water and cook, so a local inventor rolled up his sleeves.

Having a chronic illness can raise your risk of depression. For diabetics, the blood sugar high and lows of everyday life take an extra toll.

Rekindling the sexual fire of a once passionate marriage has sparked a deeper emotional link.

Presented this week at the World Health Assembly, the document could usher in a new era in affordable healthcare. Here's why we need it.

Women in South Africa are waking up to the dangers posed by fetal alcohol syndrome.

More developing countries are offering sight-saving surgery in their public health systems, but specialist eye surgeons are in short supply.

Ethiopia's rural health extension workers have helped halve the country's child death rate.

As the world recently marked World Aids Day, Africa Check has investigated the evidence behind three claims of an Aids breakthrough "cure".

Refugee resettlement camps offer a safer space for South Sudanese children, who make up 64% of all refugees in Uganda.

Less than 15% of patients seek out care for this vicious form of gangrene.

Memories, behaviours, attitudes and even perceived age can all switch together as people transition from one self to another.

The country can't produce its own paediatric heart surgeons. But that may be beginning to change, starting in Cape Town.

South Africans in Wuhan are set to come back home on Friday, but our secret journaller has a few final thoughts to share in this final instalment of our series of first-hand accounts from citizens quarantined in China.

Water pumped from the Nile is the only option for 98% of the residents of South Sudan's capital.

South Africa is rushing to roll out its first national gender-based violence action plan. But as bureaucracy and the coronavirus pandemic stall progress, violence against women continues unabated. And the hot spots that will receive extra resources, it seems, have been wrongly identified.