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Nigeria’s maternal mortality is high. But if mothers such as Oluwakemi Junaid won’t go to hospital

Old birth rites, new ways

When bringing a new life into the world risks taking another, even old traditions have to adopt new ways.

No official reasons have been given as to why the former head of the Hawks

Obesity: Is eating slap tjips as bad as smoking?

For millennials, it ain’t looking good, but are hard-hitting campaigns just fat-shaming and counterproductive?

The Gambian court case is the first to hold an African head of state accountable for violating the rights of people living with HIV.
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‘No sex, no coffee, no ARVs’: Former president’s quackery could land him in court

Former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh will be the first African head of state to be tried for violating the rights of HIV-positive people.

Gasping for air: How this African innovation is helping the tiniest patients breathe a little easier.

Local is lekker: This African innovation could save hundreds of babies each year

Every year, hundreds of thousands of children die gasping for air. This could help to change that.

Titoia Kisemei has called the Kajiado District Hospital’s manyatta TB ward home since she was diagnosed with the illness. The innovative units are aimed at helping members of the nomadic Maasai adhere to months of TB treatment.

These hospitals have become a home away from home in the Maasai’s fight against TB

When TB strikes, the fight to live can come at the cost of a way of life for the country’s nomads. This could help ease the pain.

#LifeEsidimeni: What will the Gauteng government be forced to pay?

#LifeEsidimeni: What will the Gauteng government be forced to pay?

The families of the nearly 150 mental health patients who died in the Life Esidimeni tragedy will know today how much they will be compensated.

South Africa has not imported a notable volume of bananas from Tanzania for more than two decades.
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What do your period and bananas have in common? Find out

In Rwanda, schoolgirls can now buy locally produced, cheaper sanitary towels

#LifeEsidimeni: What will the Gauteng government be forced to pay?
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‘For goodness sake, if that’s how things are run … God help us all’

Gauteng Premier David Makhura claims he didn’t know #LifeEsidimeni patients would be transferred to the care of NGOs. Perhaps he just didn’t listen.

Former Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu still sits on the provincial executive committee. (Oupa Nkosi)
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#LifeEsidimeni: Qedani Mahlangu’s ego and the death of 143 patients

The former Health MEC claims her subordinates withheld information from her. But she’s being accused of misleading the legislature.

Retired Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke says Life Esidimeni arbitration hearings will not conclude without the testimony of former Gauteng health MEC Qedani Mahlangu.
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#LifeEsidimeni: Did Qedani Mahlangu send patients to their deaths for political gain?

The former Gauteng Health MEC is expected to take the stand on Monday when she will finally face irate families who are tired of waiting for answers.

Making waves: Women on Web offers an online portal that dispatches an abortion pill to people across the world.

‘I told them I had a miscarriage. But the nurses knew what had really happened’

Go inside the international network of women willing to break the law to give people access to termination of pregnancy services.

Tens of thousands of men crisscross Zimbabwe as long-haul truck drivers and the risks they face aren’t just on the road.

Go inside the trucker craze fuelling a blackmarket in dangerous ‘sex enhancers’

The products themselves could be dangerous and are likely to encourage high-risk sexual behaviour.

Absolute poverty has decreased in South Africa

[EXCLUSIVE] Qedani Mahlangu is not a registered student at alleged London school

Bhekisisa can reveal Mahlangu is not a student at the London School of Economics and Political Science after lodging a Freedom of Information request.

Edith Kanengoni is a peer educator — one of 10 women recruited and trained by the House of Smiles to help other street mothers get medical help and improve their parenting skills.

Raising hope: From street child to mother

Abandoned as children, women in Harare are now teaching one another to fight for their futures.

Four-month-old Samson Salo receives a dose of vitamin A at the Madamani Dispensary during Malezi Bora.

This costs just cents and could prevent half-a-million children from going blind

The substance is critical in pregnancy and in the development of children; a lack of it has dire consequences.

The Finnish baby box was introduced in the 1930s when the country was poor

Would you put your baby in a cardboard box? Check out this parenting trend

The Finns’ cardboard box prompts an African graduate to develop a life-saving device for babies.

Photographer Zanele Muholi’s new book of portraits gives visual voice to the plight of ‘queer’ black women.

Could better health for your baby come in a cardboard box?

All the rage in Finland, ‘Moses baskets’ could soon be coming to South African shores.

Meet Julius. Studies have shown that he can sniff out about 42% more TB cases than the average lab technician can detect with an ordinary microscope.

Angelina Jolie takes on her biggest role — as a TB-sniffing rat

Angelina might just have saved a life. But is there science to prove it?

Doctors, on the other hand, seem to hold the heartbeat of the Zimbabwean government in their hands and, perhaps once in a while, they squeeze. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)

How to fund a failing health system

Could Zimbabwe’s new Health Development Fund rescue the country’s cash-strapped clinics and hospitals?

South Sudanese refugee children in northern Uganda

Could this country be among the world’s best for refugees?

Many Ugandans were once refugees themselves. Now, they are ‘paying back the good’ and making their country one of the best in the world for refugees.