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The real revolution is yet to come when it relates to the country’s opioid epidemic.

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

Women in Somaliland are working together with an NGO to eliminate one of the most ancient and extreme practices of female genital mutilation.

Pregnant women who drink alcohol put their unborn children at greater risk than they think, writes Mia Malan.

The HPCSA failed to rein in medical aid schemes — now it’s up to the Competition Commission

This tablet can help to protect the country's young women from contracting HIV.

When 'that time of the month' comes, you don't have to reach for disposable tampons or pads.

Some hospitals are introducing sign language to help deaf patients.

Some residents in rural towns in Mpumalanga have to chose between buying food or going to the doctor.

When a few months of treatment costs as much as a house, some patients are taking their lives and the law into their own hands to survive.

Three people have been arrested after a Pondoland initiate who lost his penis and spoke out about it in public was beaten for "shaming the custom".

Already used in countries like Namibia, the ambulances could help cut child and maternal mortality rates.

Thousands of women are lured from Nigeria to Italy annually by the promise of a new life, only to find themselves trapped in the sex trade.

Their life expectancy is almost as high as those who are HIV free, yet they pay much more.

Ghana plans to release the modified seeds this year or next. Will they benefit the small farmers they were designed for?

This doctor returned to his home town to live, love and heal.