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This database shows you where you can find safe family planning services near you. It’s verified two to four times a year by a dedicated team of data capturers and ‘secret shopper’ callers.

When it comes to leadership and innovation, there's much that industrialised nations can learn.

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

Nine years after a Grade R learner, Michael Komape, drowned in a pit toilet at his school in Limpopo, 2 334 schools in the province still have these structures on their premises. Here are the hits and misses of the education department’s efforts to get rid of them since — and what they can learn from India.

SA's listeria epidemic is over. Take a look at the detectives who traced the epidemic's source in this feature from our archives.

Before 2011, this country couldn’t screen for cervical cancer let alone prevent it. Since then everything’s changed.

For transgender people, gender-affirming care can be a matter of life and death. But medical aids still see it as a choice rather than a necessity.

In a binge-drinking community parents often give their children alcohol, or they get it in the womb.

In the wake of acid attacks, victims — often women — can feel hopeless. Now, women around the world are fighting back.

The quest for better working conditions leaves striking doctors with a tough decision but they might not have to choose.

It’s been eleven years since Zine Konwayo was first diagnosed with tuberculosis, but she is still dealing with the fallout of the disease. Not only has it damaged her lungs, but it’s also preventing her from finding a job.

This invasive plant clogs our dam and rivers but in Kenya, it’s become the next big thing in renewable energy.

The effects of alcoholism on pregnancy are keenly felt beyond just the Western Cape’s winelands.

Healthworkers are being attacked by Myanmar’s military — observers say it’s a tactic of war.

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

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