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Health Minister Zweli Mkhize spoke at an exclusive Bhekisisa event for editors on 6 August about the National Health Insurance and what it means for reproductive justice.

Health MEC Bandile Masuku tables his inaugural budget before the Gauteng Provincial Legislature. In the speech, areas such as health facility upgrades and security...

More than 70% of people surveyed by the Wellcome Global Monitor reported trusting scientists, doctors and nurses but there is no room for complacency.

A deadly conflict is brewing between those forced out of the DRC's Kahuzi-Biéga national park and the rangers charged with protecting it.

Political, security and cultural complications – not least a refusal to believe that Ebola exists – have thwarted efforts to overcome DRC’s deadly outbreak.

Could companies’ wooing of social media influencers be just a clever ploy to get around the country’s tobacco advertising ban?

In the rarely visited town of Gedeb, fears are rife over state plans to return 150 000 people to areas they fled because of ethnic violence.

Before 2011, this country couldn’t screen for cervical cancer let alone prevent it. Since then everything’s changed.

This invasive plant clogs our dam and rivers but in Kenya, it’s become the next big thing in renewable energy.

Women in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo are allegedly being asked for sexual favours in exchange for Ebola treatment.

Turns out it takes a village to raise a child but also to protect them.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of children die gasping for air. This could help to change that.

In Rwanda, schoolgirls can now buy locally produced, cheaper sanitary towels.

Thanks to a pioneering project survivors and perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide now live side by side in 'reconciliation villages'.

In 2016, 60% of women of 15 years or older living with HIV were on treatment. Less than half their male peers could say the same.

Many Ugandans were once refugees themselves. Now, they are 'paying back the good' and making their country one of the best in the world for refugees.