‘I am the same as them’ – peer educators take sex workers’ health in...
Healthcare facilities are working to ensure migrant workers are never far from care.
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In Rwanda, schoolgirls can now buy locally produced, cheaper sanitary towels
‘The baby fell, but I just kept running’
Refugees can flee their countries, but they can't escape the trauma of war.
This slashed rates of violence by 70% in some areas. Could it work in...
In many ways, violence is like cholera, passing from person to person and treating it in similar ways is working to reduce it.
Truth about cataracts is plain to see: They can be treated
More developing countries are offering sight-saving surgery in their public health systems, but specialist eye surgeons are in short supply.
Pandas or people? When the fight to save the planet pits conservation against indigenous...
A deadly conflict simmers between the autochthon people forced out of Kahuzi-Biéga national park, and the rangers protecting the land.
Local is lekker: How this Kenyan hospital began to make its own supply of...
Every year, hundreds of thousands of children die gasping for air. This could help to change that.
Drones, drugs, hackers & the future of healthcare?
From the Ganges River to Ghana, drones are delivering vaccines, HIV tests and blood transfusions around the world and cutting waiting times...
This is what it’s like to give birth in the world’s most dangerous country...
When a river and several hours of dirt roads stand between you & the nearest hospital, giving birth can be deadly. One nurse is hoping to change that.
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?
Black? A woman? Read why you’re more likely to be a victim of online...
Are social media algorithms designed to prey the mental health of women and people of colour?
India arrests dozens of journalists in clampdown on critics of COVID-19 response
Reporters for independent outlets, many in rural areas, say pressure won’t deter them from covering embarrassing stories
Shots, myths & cash: The perilous road to curbing cancer
Before 2011, this country couldn’t screen for cervical cancer let alone prevent it. Since then everything’s changed.
DRC to SA: No escape from rape’s war
Abused women from war-torn countries who have fled to SA for safety often face more maltreatment here.
Big Tobacco faces landmark legal case over poverty wages
Lawyers argue that while farming families toil over backbreaking work in desperate poverty, British American Tobacco is reaping the rewards.
The long walk back to yourself: How this hospital revolutionised rural rehabilitation
Bhojana Mathunywa was attacked by four men for bag of tobacco. Now, slowly but surely, this team of rural therapists is helping him recover the everyday skills he lost. (Dylan Bush, Bhekisisa)