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Zimbabwe’s tight abortion laws aren’t curbing demand, they’re driving them underground — and it’s about to get worse.

HIV-positive pregnant women get sound advice from mothers who can empathise.

Lesbian teenagers have a lower chance of getting a sexually transmitted infection, but the threat remains. Even though South Africa’s sex education curriculum includes all the right lessons to help pupils of all sexual identities have safe sex in theory, the information that filters through to them is still up to individual teachers.

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

Former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh will be the first African head of state to be tried for violating the rights of HIV-positive people.

Groundbreaking technology could revolutionise the future for the blind - but the exorbitant costs make it inaccessible.

A vasectomy is a permanent form of contraception for men. During this surgical procedure, the tubes that take sperm from the testicles to the glands that make semen are cut — in about the time of a lunch break.

Ikponwosa Ero went from a child who felt different to the United Nations’ first independent expert on albinism.

Technology has cut diagnosis waiting times, getting infants on to treatment sooner.

Rural hospitals and clinics struggle to attract or retain senior healthcare professionals. Health workers who grew up in rural towns can plug the gap as they are more likely to work at facilities in far-flung places than their urban counterparts.

Simple phone services are stepping in to help women who can't seek clinical advice in person.

An adherence club helped almost all patients stay on their treatment.

One in three French people think vaccines are unsafe. Here's how the country is fighting antivaxxers through social media.

A grassroots Ugandan health initiative has significantly reduced maternal deaths.

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

Lawyers argue that while farming families toil over backbreaking work in desperate poverty, British American Tobacco is reaping the rewards.