Crime stats released in 2015 reported a drop in rape cases, but experts say this is because fewer people are bothering to report rapes to the police.
New World Health Organisation guidelines recommend anyone infected with HIV is put on ARVs, regardless of their CD4 count.
Despite cervical cancer being the most preventable form of cancer, it is afflicting more South African women than any other kind.
Infectious diseases such as HIV and, increasingly, non-communicable illnesses like diabetes are resulting in more cases of chronic depression.
A cruel, unrelenting cycle of poverty, drinking and fetal alcohol syndrome robs families of all hope.
A quarter of public clinics ran out of HIV and TB medication last year, a survey has found.
Exposé spurs flurry of activity, but problems remain.
A survey of stock levels of HIV drugs is in stark contrast to health department claims that "there is no shortage".
In a binge-drinking community parents often give their children alcohol, or they get it in the womb.
The council issued an incorrect media statement on its Tim Noakes hearing on Friday. But its media blunders are not new.