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South Africa has disability grants but a doctor deemed his tuberculosis patient was not poor enough.

SA spends an enormous amount on preventative medicine but no one can tell where the failures are.

A Western Cape project is looking to make free vaccines available in private clinics, but the Eastern Cape has stopped the practice.

A centre employing only men has opened in Khayelitsha to address the needs of males uneasy about being seen at mixed-gender facilities.

Communities are bringing HIV monitoring and dispensing out of the clinics and into their homes.

A cruel, unrelenting cycle of poverty, drinking and fetal alcohol syndrome robs families of all hope.

Gender imbalances in intimate relationships make it difficult for women to decide when, if at all, to have children.

Poor training of nurses may have led to severe reactions to a new contraceptive device.

Increasing access to health services will prevent many mothers and newborn babies from dying.

In a binge-drinking community parents often give their children alcohol, or they get it in the womb.

Health experts are at loggerheads over research that raises questions about the possible link between the contraceptive injection and HIV.

Backstreet abortion ‘doctors’ profit from stigma as patients are stripped of their dignity – and lives.

Philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates released their annual letter on Thursday. In it, they predict what the world would look like by 2030.

Twenty years after the genocide, Rwanda’s health system is showing drastic improvements.

This doctor returned to his home town to live, love and heal.

Many women consult traditional healers, so it makes sense to enlist these cultural leaders in public health education.