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A horrifying experience at an illegal abortion provider led Gaopalelwe Phalaetsile to use social media to help women access safe abortion services

Many women in South Africa resorted to sex work in order to survive the COVID recession. Male “blessers” were happy to pay, contributing to the spread of HIV.

A private-public partnership is gaining ground in the fight against the disease in the city's slums.

Jacket would detect symptoms up to four times faster than a doctor.

Last week, President Cyril Ramaphosa was clear: COVID-19 funds have been stolen and misused, food parcels have been diverted from households in need and government officials and service providers have colluded to steal money. But will anti-corruption messages fix this?

A programme with the health department sees motorbikes being used to deliver drugs to people in far-flung places who can't afford the fare.

Driven by a more infectious new COVID variant, the second wave of South Africa’s coronavirus pandemic has seen considerably more infections than the first wave. This meant health workers have had to deal with more hospitalisations and deaths — and pressure. Bhekisisa visited George Mukhari Academic Hospital north of Tshwane to document the second wave realities experienced by doctors and nurses.

A rare condition has caused this man’s body to age at super speed. Why?

Late UCT Medical School dean Bongani Mayosi pioneered the response to a little known but common heart disease at home and across the continent.

With terminations outlawed in Kenya, women and girls in its largest slum have to rely on expensive and unreliable under-the-counter pills, toxic chemicals or other homemade remedies.

Across the continent, women are helping to reimagine a sacred rite of passage in an effort to honour their cultures and spare their bodies.

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

An NGO is changing lives by giving prosthetic limbs to amputees from rural and poor areas.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of children die gasping for air. This could help to change that.

Researchers have shown that monetary incentives lead to infants being immunised on time.

Numbers don't lie: A new report shows how people across the world keep piling on the kilos.