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The new commander-in-chief has made promises, but how likely is he to deliver?

Death threats and intimidation drove one man to leave the country after exposing crumbling conditions within the province’s health system.

Go inside the international network of women willing to break the law to give people access to termination of pregnancy services.

Bontle Mabe turned to a loan shark to fund her abortion after she was turned away for five days in a row at her local clinic.

Draft guidelines will look to balance a doctor or nurse's right recuse themselves from performing abortions with a person's right to choose.

How we found the country's 'missing' abortion providers – and mapped contraception services too.Bhekisisa has created #SizaMap, South Africa's first searchable map of free abortion providers....

The substance is critical in pregnancy and in the development of children; a lack of it has dire consequences.

The Finns’ cardboard box prompts an African graduate to develop a life-saving device for babies.

It's not right that only black voices in health stories are those patients. Black medical researchers must also be heard in the media space.

A draft bill is likely to virtually remove women’s access to safe abortions.

Is getting all you need from one health team far fetched? Actually not. It's one field where the public health system beats the private one.

A doctor shortage in war-torn Mozambique paved the way for a new breed of surgeons that have slashed deaths among new mothers.In Caia, a...

Left with little choice, many women turn to illegal abortionists to terminate their pregnancies.

In some provinces, safe, free abortions may only be provided at about 260 public facilities.

Water births are a growing phenomenon in South Africa and globally. But this birth method is controversial – scientific evidence is lacking.

The global body heeds calls by SA health minister Aaron Motsoaledi for high-level meeting on age-old killer.