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Community mental health care can be better for patients and health systems if it's done right. Find out how one organisation is making it work.

Our Mia Malan explains whether medical aids will be affordable under the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme.

Think paying your medical aid premiums every month ensures you access to the drugs you need when you get sick? Think again.

New United Nations report calls for drug companies to spill closely held secrets and patent reforms.

Association argues statistics skew the view of private hospital costs after international study questions facilities' affordability.

Stock-outs may be a blow to children already fighting for survival.

Many people can no longer afford hospital treatment and medication, and the number of those with medical aid has fallen by a third.

It will cost the country R30-billion a year to treat and prevent HIV by 2020, so the state has to lower costs and be clever with its health spending.

The industry body says the dwindling number of medical aid members means the government must act.

Refugees flee war-torn countries for SA, only to face more heartache and discrimination. Often their only hope lies with civil society.

The Elders say everybody is entitled to decent, affordable medical attention.

Postpartum or after birth family planning can reduce one in three maternal deaths, one in 10 infant deaths and one in five child deaths.

Poor people who have fled their countries are expected to pay steep rates for treatment at government hospitals in Gauteng.

Former detainees tell of being denied chronic medication and contracting diseases like TB while incarcerated in the overcrowded Cape Town facility.

Refugees can flee their countries, but they can't escape the trauma of war.

Many refugees flee their own war-torn countries to find safety in South Africa. But the country is not the safe haven they think it will be.