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Loss of this sense affects taste and also damages a person’s sense of emotional place in the world.

The continent’s largest film industry has been getting mental health all wrong with dangerous consequences. Now, that’s changing.

Presented this week at the World Health Assembly, the document could usher in a new era in affordable healthcare. Here's why we need it.

Communities are bringing HIV monitoring and dispensing out of the clinics and into their homes.

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

The ruthless quest for gold in eastern Cameroon has left the landscape peppered with deadly open pits.

Until now, the national and provincial health departments have not been able to say where services are provided. Here's how we found them.

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

An HIV prevention pill can reduce HIV-negative people's chances of contracting HIV by more than 90%.

Science could be closer to unravelling the riddle of menstruation-related mood disorders

Korogocho is one of Nairobi’s most dangerous slums, where rape and robbery are common. Beatrice Nyariara is helping women aged 55 to 90 to fight back.

This July, Greek islands were far from idyllic. In fact, people working in the tourism industry there say it was hell. With raging wildfires and surging temperatures, the effects of climate change are hitting home.

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".

Go inside one of the country's most dangerous jobs.

South Africa has disability grants but a doctor deemed his tuberculosis patient was not poor enough.

How we found the country's 'missing' abortion providers – and mapped contraception services too.Bhekisisa has created #SizaMap, South Africa's first searchable map of free abortion providers....