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China has reduced childhood deaths and illness from diseases that were once widespread.

Successes in the battle against infectious diseases are offset by chronic, noncommunicable illnesses.

During this initiation season, we look back at what happened in 2013 when bungled initiations cost boys their penises.

Government has raised concerns that the health system may buckle under the pressure of both HIV and non-communicable diseases - a dual epidemic.

Its health system is comparable to the best in the world, achieved at a fraction of the cost of others.

The truth is, the phenomenon is not the mystical and magical art many assume it is.

How SA women will benefit from an HPV vaccine, which the government will introduce next year, will strongly depend on the virus's link with HIV.

A preventative mastectomy might save your life if you are at high risk but it does not provide 100% protection from developing breast cancer.

The state has pulled its funding of studies on the disease, retarding progress on a cure.

While HPV vaccines will save lives, target schoolgirls will be hard to reach.

Their life expectancy is almost as high as those who are HIV free, yet they pay much more.

After a seven-year battle, India's government has successfully defended its right to reject drug patents if a medicine doesn't deserve one.

Students are abusing schedule six pills ahead of exams – with the help of their doctors.

The establishment of a health promotion body in SA would save lives — and billions of rands.

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