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

Are faith-based NGOs breaking the law when they refuse to give women information on where to terminate their pregnancies?

Community mental health care can be better for patients and health systems if it's done right. Find out how one organisation is making it work.

A Western Cape project is looking to make free vaccines available in private clinics, but the Eastern Cape has stopped the practice.

Morphine was first introduced to Uganda 30 years ago, but as the burden of cancer increases, thousands of people still lack access to even basic treatment for pain relief.

From how to spice up your sex life to the more mundane, “does this look weird to you”, there are some questions you just don’t want to ask your friends and family. Relax. Now, there’s an app for that.

Can the health minister fix our health system and what will it take? Here’s what Mkhize’s character, views and his past experience as a doctor tell us.

South Africa plans to roll out treatment for opioid addiction to all government health facilities by 2028, according to a draft of the country’s sixth HIV action plan. Read one person’s story of recovery here.

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

More developing countries are offering sight-saving surgery in their public health systems, but specialist eye surgeons are in short supply.

Alopecia or hair loss can devastate your self-esteem, unless you hold your head up high.

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".

The joy of motherhood is killed by a moral and ethical dilemma when doctors advise termination of a pregnancy.

Taps in capital city of Maputo being turned off every other day as climate change exacerbates southern African drought.

Blind football represents hope and belonging for Egypt's one million visually impaired.

The country can't produce its own paediatric heart surgeons. But that may be beginning to change, starting in Cape Town.