New regulations in South Africa are set to formalise traditional healing practices, addressing the legitimacy of medical ...

Shudufhadzo Musida, crowned Miss South Africa in 2020, embarks on a new chapter as a master's student in New York City, ...

In a sunlit shack on the outskirts of Lesotho's capital Maseru, 34-year-old Lieketseng Lucia Tjatji sits under a black cloth ...

African women are forging a healthier future, blending innovation, agency, and tradition to reshape healthcare and reclaim ...

Because these factors, too, might have affected the spread of HIV, three independent groups of scientists launched rigorous studies of circumcision's effects in Uganda, Kenya, and South Africa.

The idea that eliminating the United States Institute of Peace would benefit taxpayers is extremely shortsighted and ill ...

Commission for Gender Equality report found that the government failed to implement policies to prevent illegal initiation schools from operating.

Unaware of the tragic incident that was waiting to unfold, she booked a circumcision procedure with ... to the Health Professions Council of South Africa’s (HPCSA) investigation.

Without fear of contradiction, I think Winnie – anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela’s first wife – is an icon of women's ...

Generations of women, from the United States’ Harriet Tubman to South Africa’s Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Uganda’s Winnie ...

The role of male circumcision in reducing sexually transmitted ... This question could not be addressed by the South African trial because HPV detection was only conducted at one point in time.