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Sex workers tell of being tortured, including being beaten with sjamboks.

"Women are blamed for infertility when, in fact, as we know from research, it is quite often on the man’s side.”

Bhekisisa's new manual provides handy information on abortion data in South Africa, how procedures work and what the law says.

Provincial health department has been put under administration as ministerial task team is deployed to the province.

Why Supra Mahumapelo may hold his fate and that of his province in his hands.

Why the World Bank may have peddled some dodgy facts about this mental health condition.

Striking workers say a go-slow at the province's central depot will continue until their demands are met.

Nigeria's latest and largest epidemic has claimed almost 100 lives. Find out more about the virus.

But will the country be able to half its maternal mortality ratio by 2030 - in time to achieve its sustainable development goal?

Misconceptions about HIV infection and injection drug use could shut down the only project working to curb it.

After being awarded damages, distraught families want more: the former Gauteng Health MEC must face criminal charges.

The arbitration ruling specifies that both Constitutional and general damages have to be paid.

The families of the nearly 150 mental health patients who died in the Life Esidimeni tragedy will know today how much they will be compensated.

Both Life Esidimeni and Listeriosis exposed leadership cracks in our public health system. Are political leaders held accountable for their actions?

Abortion has been legal for more than 20 years in SA but many people still don't know when or where they can get safe terminations. These can help.

The head of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases' listeria investigation, Juno Thomas, tells us which foods to bin and how.