Twenty years after the genocide, Rwanda’s health system is showing drastic improvements.
A move to ban Wouter Basson from medicine has been met with a tongue-lashing from his lawyer.
Refugees run the border crossing gauntlet of lions, rivers, rape and theft hoping for a better life.
If the health minister has his way, vaping will soon be regulated like regular smoking because, he says, Big Tobacco is complicit in its rise.
Primary healthcare barely exists outside our urban centres, and apartheid-ordained inequality is stark.
Medical malpractice litigation is preventing young doctors from entering high-risk fields of medicine.
A French team of scientists have proposed a process called "endogenisation", believed to have neutralised other viruses in humans in the past.
Experts believe Ginkgo biloba, a natural product used in vitamin supplements, may be harmful if taken together with HIV medication.
The World Health Organisation estimates that one in five pregnancies globally end in induced abortion.
New health discoveries are often not immediately accessible or affordable to the average individual, particularly in low and middle-income countries.