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State cancer patients have nowhere to turn, even if their cancer is treatable.

In a new book, Redi Tlhabi reveals the woman behind the pseudonym and the price she paid for pursuing justice after accusing Jacob Zuma of rape.

Early screening for cervical cancer can be a lifesaver but are nonprofit organisations enough to fill the gap in KZN's crumbling system?

Making sex work safer can lead to less HIV infections and gender-based violence, studies have shown.

We take a look at some of the unlikely customers hitting up SA's breast milk banks.

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

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

South Africa is one of about three dozen countries that supports HIV self-testing, but will it catch on? Here's what people who live here had to say.

Find out why cancer care in KwaZulu-Natal is on the brink of collapse.

Have something to say? We can help you say it – but only if you promise to read this first.

It starts with a swab but does it end with a diagnosis? Why the trickiest part of DIY HIV testing happens after the test.

One in two people living with HIV still aren’t on treatment, could DIY testing be the solution?

It’s time that evidence, not stigma, drive SA’s drug policies.

Traditional West African ‘healers’ and Sicilian psychiatrists are struggling to help free Nigerian women forced into prostitution.

Despite our complicated relationship with it, our poo could one day power our cell phones, tablets and laptops.

When new technology and an old tradition meet, they could help avert more than a million new HIV infections.