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Some hospitals are introducing sign language to help deaf patients.

These ATMs can decrease the number of patients in clinics but health workers are not helping to achieve that goal.

Sihle Batiya's luckier than most – but the odds are stacked against kids with Down's syndrome in the Eastern Cape.

A new tool may help to keep workers who breathe in silica dust safe from silicosis — at less than R50 a prick.

The products themselves could be dangerous and are likely to encourage high-risk sexual behaviour.

Having banned female genital cutting, his ousting was good for democracy, but but bad for women's bodies.

The effects of alcoholism on pregnancy are keenly felt beyond just the Western Cape’s winelands.

The residents of a Nigerian village had no health services, save for traditional methods, to treat those with a fever and a rash.

Shame doesn't start when menstruation begins. It is built in slow steps.

Mental health patients in Johannesburg's East Rand are hard hit by the unavailability of medication.

Stereotyping prevents men who sleep with other men from accessing proper treatment and prevention of HIV infection.

Introduce harm-reduction and HIV programmes – especially for heroin users – before it's too late.

Instead of the care she sought, a vulnerable patient found further distress in a PE hospital.

Psychiatrists have since turned to antidepressants, mood stabilisers and antipsychotics that aren’t curative.

HIV+ people on ARVs are now living longer lifespans. But the virus's associated diseases could put an unbearable strain on the health system.

Aids kills more people prematurely in SA than another other disease – in sharp contrast to two decades ago, which set them at just 12%.