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For 100 years Durban's non-profit McCord Hospital has been a beacon of hope for the poor. Now it has to rely on the state to survive.

Reducing maternal and newborn mortality has to be a priority if Africa is to reach its potential.

Silicosis might appear only 15 years after exposure to gold ore dust, long after they have gone home. Heidi Swart reports.

Accessing healthcare in this rural town has never been easy. Shortages of staff as well as medical equipment makes it difficult for this hospital to function.

This man from rural Eastern Cape had to travel all the way to Cuba to make his dream of becoming a doctor come true. Now, he is back home and treating patients at the same hospital his mother used to sell fruit in front of when he was a boy.

The kidnapping of young girls ignores the 'niceties' of a cultural practice.

Mia Malan describes the arduous trek an Eastern Cape woman had to undertake to get medical attention for her sick grandson.

A controversial plastic additive is said to affect foetuses and increase the risk of breast cancer.

Universal healthcare schemes traditionally have been met with fierce opposition.

With the severe effects of the habit on the unborn child now widely known, why do pregnant mothers refuse to give up?

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

An eighth-grade teenager shows how funky and strong her fight against a four-letter word is. Mia Malan reports.

The health minister and UNAids are jumping the gun by not consulting activists.All Nanaki Mohajane’s sister, Masentle, wanted to do was to keep her...

Western Cape health director general Craig Househam is widely tipped to take over the running of the National Department of Health.

Traditional leaders are resisting plans to introduce medical circumcision. Mia Malan reports.

Professors Hoosen Coovadia and Salim Abdool Karim, two of SA's foremost HIV researchers, were recently the health department's greatest enemies.