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The nationwide industrial action is expected to last at least until Friday and could affect patients living with conditions such as cancer and HIV.

The Ebola outbreak on the continent showed how countries with poor health systems are unfit to fight epidemics.

Even though traces of cancer-causing chemicals have been found, the real killer – tobacco – is absent.

In some regions in Africa, deeply rooted 'tradition' demands that local girls undergo harmful traditional practices if they are to gain access to a husband and the adult world.

Having a baby in sub-Saharan Africa is riskier than anywhere else according to the latest State of the World's Mothers report.

A court has ruled that a mother, representing her child, can now apply to claim damages for alleged negligent prenatal misdiagnosis of her child.

Prevenar and Rotarix have emptied paediatric wards but the coverage is still too low.

The murder of an Mpumalanga doctor on duty has exposed the lax security at public hospitals.

Diets come and go like fashion - new research shows that to cut the weight you should cut the sugar.

The health minister has stressed the importance of improving tuberculosis treatment so as to help mitigate the drastic impact of TB-HIV co-infection.

While HPV vaccines will save lives, target schoolgirls will be hard to reach.

Police are inadequately trained and social services too poorly resourced to deal with all of the reported cases of child abuse.

With crime rates high and no efficient emergency number available, an app developed by a student aims to make people in Kenya feel safer.

The Gauteng health department has agreed to pay almost half-a-million rand to an HIV-positive woman after she was coercively sterilised.

A generic version of a key cancer drug is now available in South Africa, but at a significantly higher cost than it is available internationally.

NHI details are not clear but it is certain that the priveged few will have to do with less.