‘Most complex health crisis in history’: Congo struggles to contain Ebola
Political, security and cultural complications – not least a refusal to believe that Ebola exists – have thwarted efforts to overcome...
How this country is beating anti-vaxxers at their own game
One in three French people think vaccines are unsafe, yet vaccine coverage in the country is rising. Here’s how they do...
Elsa and Nosipho: they both sell sex for a living, but in opposite worlds
Does sex work legislation have an impact on violence and the spread of HIV? We follow two women who operate in opposite worlds to find out.
Water in Ghana from pipe to packet: Is there a hidden cost to this...
In a country where pipes can stop short of reaching home, cheap sachets of water sold on the street could be an unlikely solution, but at what cost?
What’s the one thing rape crisis centres in SA & Malawi are missing?
Why the woes facing South Africa’s Thuthuzela Care Centres may not be as unique as we thought.
He would ransom the pills for something more precious than profit: His wife’s life
When a few months of treatment costs as much as a house, some patients are taking their lives and the law into their own hands to survive.
This popular birth control shot is out of stock for the second year running....
Women who have been forced to go without their usual birth control shot are now facing the consequences of months-long shortages.
A changing birth: What’s behind SA’s skyrocketing c-section rates?
Almost one in four babies born at public hospitals come into the world via c-section but is it costing some women their lives?
Virtual reality and SA’s quest for happier nurses
South Africa's public health nurses are infamous for having bad attitudes. Could a pair of goggles help them change their ways?
How to get South Africans to buy into the next big thing in medicine
These ATMs can decrease the number of patients in clinics but health workers are not helping to achieve that goal.
One she called the ‘minister of love’. The other? He was the ‘minister of...
Since the country’s rollout, less than a quarter of people who’ve started taking the HIV prevention pill are young women — despite high HIV rates.
‘I didn’t think it was necessary to use condoms because I was only 15.’
This province reported skyrocketing rates of teen pregnancy but behind the figures lies a story about sex, knowledge and data.
SA just endorsed a draft resolution that could bring Big Pharma to its knees
Presented this week at the World Health Assembly, the document could usher in a new era in affordable healthcare. Here's why we need it.
Cost of corruption – How a toddler died at Bosasa’s detention centre
Bosasa bribed its way into contracts. Meet the four-year-old who paid the price.
Bosasa to dead toddler’s family: If you want answers, you’ll have to PAIA us
About 15 years after their son died while illegally detained at a deportation centre outside Johannesburg, this family still hasn't found his grave.
Speak more than one language? This is what it does to your brain.
Speaking more than one language could lead to better tests scores and even being a more empathetic person.