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

An eighth-grade teenager shows how funky and strong her fight against a four-letter word is. Mia Malan reports.

The start of the rainy season in the war-torn country could spell a cholera outbreak.

Some experts say sugar should be treated like drugs or alcohol. What does the science say?

Walking on the road in Accra can be dangerous, say researchers. Using a cellphone while doing so can up the chance for an accident even more. Here’s what a study found should be done to keep pedestrians safe.

We used to believe our brains couldn’t be changed. Now we believe they can – if we want it enough. But is that true?

In the small rural town of Chivhu, Zimbabwe, 10-year-old Grace Zvarebwa is training for a pan-African schools chess tournament in Liberia. Chess is an activity normally reserved for the country’s elite schools, but the sport has transformed the lives of rural school girls like Zvarebwa.

Plenty of people told Sarah Stein that practising medicine would be difficult. Now, as a fifth year medical student at the University of Cape Town, she wishes she would have listened more carefully.

Despite our complicated relationship with it, our poo could one day power our cell phones, tablets and laptops.

The HPV vaccine roll-out is prompting parents to rethink how they talk to children about sex.

Think that emergency care is just a call away? You might want to think again.

An app, a few volunteers and buy-in from doctors can make the frontlines a kinder place for patients, staff and families.

When this queer woman's activism put her at the centre of a village-ordered hit, a sex worker saved her life. Go behind their story of love, life, fear and solidarity in one of the most homophobic countries in the world.

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

A dearth of mental health professionals is leading some people to get creative about counselling.

From the Ganges River to Ghana, drones are delivering vaccines, HIV tests and blood transfusions around the world and cutting waiting times for life-saving healthcare. But is all that glitters really gold when it comes to the next big thing in health?