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

Ebola wiped out nearly 10% of Liberia’s doctors and nurses. Take a look at life for those it left behind.

The pain of bereavement is supposed to ease with time. When it doesn't, psychiatrists call it 'complicated grief' and it can be treated.

Inside the Kenyan village that began as a refuge for survivors of sexual violence.

With a black beret “à la the EFF” and fire-engine red scrubs, Ebrahim Variava is not scared to speak out against the ills of a broken public health system — something that got him suspended from his post as head of internal medicine at the Tshepong Hospital in Klerksdorp in 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 crisis. Meet the doctor for whom patients are always the priority.

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

Two young women are proving to the world that the most deadly strain of TB can be beaten.

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

When our profile writer, Sean Christie, asked Aaron Motsoaledi for a form of life story share, South Africa’s health minister responded with a swift biographical flyover. But Christie was more interested in a sense of the experiences that lie behind the bullet points, both good and bad.

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

Skewed state funding has left many centres dependent on fees that patients can't afford, writes Mara Kardas-Nelson.