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Should government health schemes pay for infertility treatment?
"Women are blamed for infertility when, in fact, as we know from research, it is quite often on the man’s side.”
Abortion in South Africa: A reporting guide for journalists
Bhekisisa's new manual provides handy information on abortion data in South Africa, how procedures work and what the law says.
The future of water: From your toilet to your tap and back again
The reality is many of us look at water like we do a takeaway container.
Obesity: Is eating slap tjips as bad as smoking?
For millennials, it ain't looking good, but are hard-hitting campaigns just fat-shaming and counterproductive?
Could this be the second major city on the verge of a ‘day zero’?
Taps in capital city of Maputo being turned off every other day as climate change exacerbates southern African drought.
North West: The closest working hospital may be more than 200 km away for...
Provincial health department has been put under administration as ministerial task team is deployed to the province.
‘No sex, no coffee, no ARVs’: Former president’s quackery could land him in court
Former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh will be the first African head of state to be tried for violating the rights of HIV-positive people.
North West: Military health services move in
Why Supra Mahumapelo may hold his fate and that of his province in his hands.
Missing medicines and missing money: Why a bigger crisis looms in North West
Provincial medicine shortages may be just the beginning.
Do 1 in 5 Nigerian adults really live with long-term depression?
Why the World Bank may have peddled some dodgy facts about this mental health condition.
Local is lekker: How this Kenyan hospital began to make its own supply of...
Every year, hundreds of thousands of children die gasping for air. This could help to change that.
State capture strikes again? Why 95% of medicines are missing at North West clinics
Striking workers say a go-slow at the province's central depot will continue until their demands are met.
These hospitals have become a home away from home in the Maasai’s fight against...
When TB strikes, the fight to live can come at the cost of a way of life for the country's nomads. This could help ease the pain.
Seven things you should know about this country’s largest Lassa fever outbreak
Nigeria's latest and largest epidemic has claimed almost 100 lives. Find out more about the virus.
#SliceOfLife: ‘I shared my abortion experience on Facebook and it went viral’
A horrifying experience at an illegal abortion provider led Gaopalelwe Phalaetsile to use social media to help women access safe abortion services
Blessers and blessees: Why do we have so many?
Bhekisisa editor Mia Malan asks reproductive health doctor Tlaleng Mofokeng why older men prey on younger women.