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The Gauteng health department has admitted to problems at the facility, seen by the public protector.

South Africa’s medicines regulator will announce a decision on the approval of a two-monthly HIV prevention jab within days. If the shot is approved, the health department could start rolling it out on a large scale within nine months — but that depends on the injection’s price.

Clinics dedicated to young people are ideal but the poor nation struggles to provide at least a basic service for those who can't access them.

When a primary school teacher in the Western Cape suspected that one of her pupils was being sexually abused, she did everything she could to help. Here’s what happened next.

The joy of motherhood is killed by a moral and ethical dilemma when doctors advise termination of a pregnancy.

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

Unsafe in Somalia and unwanted in Kenya, refugees increasingly risk abduction in search of a better life.

We take you on the new coronavirus's journey through the country — and tell you how it got it.

Dembe Ndou learned to play piano in no time at all, but simply chatting is a complex challenge.

Refugees can flee their countries, but they can't escape the trauma of war.

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

As humanitarian organisations sound the alarm over high malnutrition rates among Malawi's prisoners, one woman is trying to help keep inmates alive.

Common cough, flu and pain medicines can be addictive. Codeine addiction is an increasingly well-known problem in South Africa.

Driven by a more infectious new COVID variant, the second wave of South Africa’s coronavirus pandemic has seen considerably more infections than the first wave. This meant health workers have had to deal with more hospitalisations and deaths — and pressure. Bhekisisa visited George Mukhari Academic Hospital north of Tshwane to document the second wave realities experienced by doctors and nurses.

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

The best traditional initiation schools uphold cultural values, but rely on good management and high standards.