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This country has more than 200-million people, so why has it only logged 22 000 coronavirus tests?

Lesbian teenagers have a lower chance of getting a sexually transmitted infection, but the threat remains. Even though South Africa’s sex education curriculum includes all the right lessons to help pupils of all sexual identities have safe sex in theory, the information that filters through to them is still up to individual teachers.

One in four Zimbabweans suffers from mental illness, but untrained female health workers are setting a new benchmark for the treatment of patients.

Boitumelo Semete-Makokotlela leads the country’s medicines regulator, the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra), a public entity few people knew about until the COVID-19 pandemic hit. COVID triggered a noisy scramble for vaccines, tests and treatments that needed to be approved — often embroiled in politics.

​Nearly 36 000 young Mozambicans have signed up for SMS-based health counselling but will the new technology curb HIV infections?

The start of the rainy season in the war-torn country could spell a cholera outbreak.

Less than 15% of patients seek out care for this vicious form of gangrene.

Here's the story of the Treatment Action Campaign or how a handful of people created a global movement that changed the world.

The real revolution is yet to come when it relates to the country’s opioid epidemic.

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

A Johannesburg director has taken up the continuing tragedy of botched circumcisions.

In this 2014 interview, former Free State health MEC Benny Malakoane says that detractors are still alive is proof of the good work under his watch.

A grassroots Ugandan health initiative has significantly reduced maternal deaths.

Migraine sufferers may not realise that drug overuse can be a large part of the problem.

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".

A study among adolescents and young women in South African universities found that girls who had experienced sexual violence were more likely to report an unintended pregnancy compared with those who had never experienced sexual violence.