Most people with diabetes are poorly controlled. This makes them vulnerable to complications like eye problems, kidney disease, and even amputations.
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The six young men took very different routes to recovery. Their experiences hold important lessons for managing opioid addiction.
Ebola is a highly transmissible disease but its spread can be prevented through behavioural measures.
Les femmes qui veulent avorter privilégient la protection sociale au détriment de la sécurité médicale pour échapper à la loi et à la stigmatisation. L’auto-prise en charge peut-elle être la réponse?
When tackling an Ebola outbreak speed is a critical element - every hour counts.
Obesity leads to a number of maternal and child health problems.
In the context of Nigeria’s restrictive abortion laws, promoting access to medication abortion drugs is a life saver.
People in Nigeria are creating new drugs either because they can’t afford more traditional narcotics, because they’re not controlled or because they’re strong.
Girls and young women do not search for medical safety when seeking abortion care. They prioritise “social safety” to avoid prosecution and social stigma. Can self-care be a solution?
When antiretroviral therapy is working effectively, HIV cannot be transmitted. This allows people with HIV to live fuller lives without the fear of infecting others.
The Sudan strain of the Ebola virus has been identified in Uganda for the first time in more than a decade.
The domestic workers’ place of work, as a private household, is difficult to monitor. It is therefore challenging for government to enforce current legislation.
The pandemic has disrupted national immunisation programmes. As a result, the African continent is seeing more outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases.
Lowering obesity and overweight rates will lift the burden on healthcare spending.
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome is common among women and girls in Nigeria but not many know its impact on their lives and reproductive health.
Small, organised groups of South Africans who are stopping undocumented foreigners from using hospitals bring the issue of migrants accessing healthcare into the spotlight.
Patients with low HIV viral loads are just as likely to harbour HIV variants with drug resistance mutations as those with high viral loads.
Beitbridge and Musina are two border towns in Zimbabwe and South Africa that see many migrants pass through – with different health needs.
The future is bleak for Zimbabwe’s healthcare unless there are serious long-term reforms to build resilience.
Lagos waste pickers were dissatisfied with their unhealthy working conditions, poverty and stigmatisation.
South Africa’s healthcare services are overburdened. But this is not because of non-nationals.
The continuing precarity and vulnerability to violence has long term consequences for these women’s health and well-being.
To understand the perceptions of TB patients about their quality of life, it’s useful to have a comparison with “apparently healthy” people.
Newborn babies are particularly vulnerable to hot conditions. They have a limited ability to control their body temperature.
Each food-based vitamin A programme carries different advantages and issues.