More than 20 million young women are not accessing contraception globally, resulting in about 10 million unintended pregnancies each year, according to a new report by US reproductive health and rights organisation Guttmacher Institute.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will invest about R1.2 billion in the next three years to enable countries to count women and girls, and generate crucial data on hundreds of thousands of women around the world.
In Mpumalanga, boys are preparing to head to ‘the mountain’ and return as men. As concerns regarding the safety of some initiation schools mount, a new blend of tradition and medicine may help preserve a centuries-old rite.
Friday 13 May proved lucky for thousands of mineworkers seeking damages from gold mines for silicosis and TB
More than a million South Africans are born into the world each year and a new report released today shows that the inequity they are born into begins to shape them from a young age.
Meet the Soweto fitness instructor who says it does not have to cost a cent to stay fit.
South Africa has committed itself to reaching the world’s latest batch of ambitious targets, but it will not meet them without sex workers, writes Ntokozo Yingwana.
Any HIV positive person will be able to get antiretroviral medicine irrespective of their CD4 count by September.
Millions of South Africans live with serious illness and when the pain becomes too much, many turn to hospice.
Municipalities' inability to manage waste water and repair pipes is threatening our survival
Hundreds of women each year die following caesarean deliveries. With rates of caesarean deliveries climbing, the stage may be set for more deaths to come.
Lele Gangile, 19, thought he wanted to end his life but when he had second thoughts, an ambulance may have arrived too late to save the Orange Farm teen.
In South Africa's two-tiered healthcare system, no one wins, testify doctors as the Competition Commission Inquiry into Private Healthcare resumes, writes Section27.
When you're a doctor operating along South Africa’s drug routes, anything can happen and when it does, reality and relations can change in an instant, writes one rural doctor.
One Northern Cape clinic recently spent months without a cleaner, forcing nurses to trade their stethoscopes for mops. Now, the Northern Cape Department of Health has stepped in to help.
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