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The department moved people to save money and NGOs were happy to take them in for cash.

The province is providing free sanitary pads to learners, so what's stopping a national roll-out?

Refugee resettlement camps offer a safer space for South Sudanese children, who make up 64% of all refugees in Uganda.

Almost 100 Gauteng mental health patients died after MEC Qedani Mahlangu's disastrous decision, the health ombud has found.

The health ombudsman has found 94 mental health patients died because of state negligence. Laura Lopez Gonzalez tells Mia Malan what happened.

A father speaks out about the terrible conditions his son died in after being removed from state-funded hospital care at Life Esidimeni.

Fact may be stranger than science fiction as artificial intelligence moves into consulting rooms.

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

Having a chronic illness can raise your risk of depression. For diabetics, the blood sugar high and lows of everyday life take an extra toll.

How does your drinking affect your sex life? And can HIV infection be linked to alcohol consumption? Mia Malan gives you the facts.

Science could be closer to unravelling the riddle of menstruation-related mood disorders

Campaigners warn the reinstatement of a policy cutting aid to organisations that offer abortion services will devastate family planning.

Two years of HIV self-testing in Malawi have shown no cases of suicide, intimate partner violence or self-harm.

In SA, HIV infection is no longer a death sentence but in countries like the Democratic Republic Congo, it's as if treatment never happened.

The health department says the problems with placements are overstated but experts wonder if provincial budgets are coping with rising costs.

The health department calls arrests 'unfortunate' after senior officials spend night trying to get workers out of cells.