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More developing countries are offering sight-saving surgery in their public health systems, but specialist eye surgeons are in short supply.

A programme with the health department sees motorbikes being used to deliver drugs to people in far-flung places who can't afford the fare.

Women said they couldn't afford to boil water and cook, so a local inventor rolled up his sleeves.

Some rain has fallen yet crop yields are still expected to be poor, but aid programmes have opened the door to a more sustainable future.

Groundbreaking technology could revolutionise the future for the blind - but the exorbitant costs make it inaccessible.

Leaders of Zimbabwe's Apostolic sects are warming to the idea of women giving birth at health clinics.

Some residents in rural towns in Mpumalanga have to chose between buying food or going to the doctor.

The Gauteng health department has admitted to problems at the facility, seen by the public protector.

Depression among the elderly is largely overlooked, but exercise can help to counter it.

Cat' or 'intash' joins tik and nyaope in the playground as dealers target bored children.

South Africa lost nearly 100 000 people to TB last year – three-quarters of whom were HIV-positive. Reducing the burden will benefit the economy.

The notion of violence as a national health priority has yet to take hold, even among health professionals.

Healthy lungs don’t mean you’re off the hook: tuberculosis can take root anywhere in the body.

A change in mind-set is required because feeding schemes alone cannot put an end to malnutrition.

Men’s quest for the perfect body has reached the ‘bigorexia’ tipping point.

South Africa has disability grants but a doctor deemed his tuberculosis patient was not poor enough.