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Here's how northwest Kenya gets nomadic families to health services.

When the US went to bat for Big Pharma in the fight against this killer disease, South Africa wasn’t having any of it. Here’s what happened next.

Obstetrician Eddie Mhlanga often had to attend to women who had unsafe abortions during apartheid, when abortion was illegal in South Africa.

Scroll down to read the latest trial results as part of our live blog from the UN's recent high level meeting on TB.

Ramaphosa and Motsoaledi are expected to draw high praise at a UN meeting this week. Find out why.

Heads of state discussed one of the world's biggest killers in New York this week — and it was Aaron Motsoaledi who got them together.

Are faith-based NGOs breaking the law when they refuse to give women information on where to terminate their pregnancies?

Dear Tisa, you have a point but we’ve got a reason to be wary.

When people with diabetes inject insulin, we don't see that as an addiction. So why is opioid substitution therapy considered one?

In the wake of acid attacks, victims — often women — can feel hopeless. Now, women around the world are fighting back.

Until two years ago, it was Sibonelo Gumede’s job to help developers get rid of people who used drugs in neighbourhoods. Then his life changed.

Hospice isn't just a place to die but funding cuts – and that perception – could be killing our chances of a kinder death as refuges close

There's more to the data — and social media — backing the latest tobacco-funded ad campaign.

Shame doesn't start when menstruation begins. It is built in slow steps.

And about half of its ambulances are standing idle.

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