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In a far-flung district, a night-time ban on shebeens has wiped out violence in a village.

A simple practice that benefits all newborns is also bringing down mortality rates.

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

Mia Malan reports on the challenges of involving medical schemes in the administration of the National Health Insurance scheme.

Access to ARVs is improving, but poor attitudes to patients are aggravating maternal mortality rates.

Suicides among teenagers are on the rise, but parents can be taught to spot the warning signs.

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

Poor oral hygiene doesn't just affect your gums; it can also lead to impotence.

‘Baby bins' can mean the difference between life – and death at the bottom of a trash can.

Why would young, single African women not take free drugs that could potentially save them from contracting a life-threatening infection?

Aids kills more people prematurely in SA than another other disease – in sharp contrast to two decades ago, which set them at just 12%.

Silicosis might appear only 15 years after exposure to gold ore dust, long after they have gone home. Heidi Swart reports.

Accessing healthcare in this rural town has never been easy. Shortages of staff as well as medical equipment makes it difficult for this hospital to function.

This man from rural Eastern Cape had to travel all the way to Cuba to make his dream of becoming a doctor come true. Now, he is back home and treating patients at the same hospital his mother used to sell fruit in front of when he was a boy.

The kidnapping of young girls ignores the 'niceties' of a cultural practice.

Mia Malan describes the arduous trek an Eastern Cape woman had to undertake to get medical attention for her sick grandson.