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

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

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

Badly needed and eager to work here, their efforts are being thwarted by a bureaucratic quagmire.

South Africans in Wuhan are set to come back home on Friday, but our secret journaller has a few final thoughts to share in this final instalment of our series of first-hand accounts from citizens quarantined in China.

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

When kids at risk of suicide can talk to trained friends & family, they're seven times less likely to die, says one of the world's largest studies.

The population assessments of the epidemic in sub-Sahara yields information of benefit to patients and to each nation’s plan of action

A grassroots Ugandan health initiative has significantly reduced maternal deaths.

Having a chronic illness can raise your risk of depression. For diabetics, the blood sugar high and lows of everyday life take an extra toll.

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

Solar power, solar electricity and mobile technology are helping to reduce the rate of maternal mortality in Cameroon.

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

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

Scandinavian expertise is helping to train top nurses in how to handle difficult pregnancies.

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