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Government facilities are trumping their larnier colleagues in providing HIV services.

In the state sector, not everyone is equal. Some of us have to pay an arm, a leg and a full working day.

Jacket would detect symptoms up to four times faster than a doctor.

One man's mission to bring sanitary sanity and dignity to those kept behind bars.

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.

When kids at risk of suicide can talk to trained friends & family, they're seven times less likely to die, says one of the world's largest studies.

A new study to be conducted in South Africa, Uganda and India has sparked a heated debate in the HIV activist and research community.

Badly needed and eager to work here, their efforts are being thwarted by a bureaucratic quagmire.

Silicosis might appear only 15 years after exposure to gold ore dust, long after they have gone home. Heidi Swart reports.

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

A grassroots Ugandan health initiative has significantly reduced maternal deaths.

The population assessments of the epidemic in sub-Sahara yields information of benefit to patients and to each nation’s plan of action

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.

Situations can get worse for women who are battered by their intimate partners: research now shows they are at higher risk of contracting HIV.

In a far-flung district, a night-time ban on shebeens has wiped out violence in a village.

Medical apps could drastically improve lives, but can't be accessed by those who need them most.