Rural Health

Keneilwe Dikoma's life changed forever when her son Lorato was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at six months old. For three decades, she has navigated the complexities of care in…

The Anova Health Institute, which received the lion’s share of the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids funding in South Africa, had its support halted in February along with…

According to the 2022-23 District Health Barometer, there has been a 6.1% increase in the number of deliveries by girls and women aged 10 to 19, over the past five years

The Bulungula Incubator in the Eastern Cape has set up a medicine pick up point close to people’s homes, assisting them in sticking to their treatment

Once slices of the healthcare funding pie are dished out to provinces, there is little control over how this money is spent to benefit the rural poor.

Some pharmacists will be doing their community service at private pharmacies amid a shortage of posts.

Ethiopia’s rural health extension workers have helped halve the country’s child death rate.

GPs working in the National Health Insurance’s biggest pilot site say they won’t stay because of drug stock-outs, staff shortages and long queues

More than 200 newly qualified doctors may be left with worthless degrees if provinces can’t raise funds for internship positions

Often medical help comes too late for people in rural areas but community health workers could change this

Already used in countries like Namibia, the ambulances could help cut child and maternal mortality rates.

The Mail & Guardian travelled to the North West and Eastern Cape to find out more about the hidden lives of trans people on the frontline.

Healthcare for Kenya’s semi-nomadic communities comes in an unlikely form of camels, who carry medicine to the country’s most remote villages.

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

Primary healthcare barely exists outside our urban centres, and apartheid-ordained inequality is stark.