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To understand Mpumalanga's teen pregnancies, look closely at the much older men calling the shots.

The best traditional initiation schools uphold cultural values, but rely on good management and high standards.

Treatment for the debilitating obstetric injury has been scarce in Uganda, but organisations are helping to fill the gap, writes Mara Kardas-Nelson.

A man has taken two specialists to task for a misdiagnosis that nearly cost him his foot.

SA's strategy to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is noble, but cracks are showing.

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

Living in a settlement named after Nelson Mandela doesn't mean you have the basics.

A new study to be conducted in South Africa, Uganda and India has sparked a heated debate in the HIV activist and research community.

South Africa's maternal mortality rate leaves the elderly to deal with its consequences, with many unable to keep up.

Situations can get worse for women who are battered by their intimate partners: research now shows they are at higher risk of contracting HIV.

ARVs have stopped children dying, now the former Aids hospice is helping them to thrive.

An ambitious project to map the human brain has vast medical potential – if it's possible.

A doctor currently on paid leave was convicted of two counts of involuntary manslaughter in the US before starting jobs in SA public hospitals.

Denial should not stand in the way of the provision of sexual health services at schools, says Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.

The state's hopes for the nonsurgical circumcision device rest on its acceptance in initiation rituals.

Madiba's prison past may have played a role in his recurrent lung infections.