‘No home, no money, no medicine – but who cares? I don’t exist’
Introduce harm-reduction and HIV programmes – especially for heroin users – before it's too late.
Six weighty figures to watch: The SA and global obesity epidemic in numbers
Numbers don't lie: A new report shows how people across the world keep piling on the kilos.
How one project is finally helping reduce the risk of suicide among teens
When kids at risk of suicide can talk to trained friends & family, they're seven times less likely to die, says one of the...
[From our archives] Go inside the trucker craze fuelling a blackmarket in dangerous ‘sex...
The products themselves could be dangerous and are likely to encourage high-risk sexual behaviour.
This is what a feminist looks like
Rape culture doesn't start when a rape is committed. It is built in slow steps in everyday events that help normalise gender-based violence.
The lost particles of grief: How COVID-19 is changing death
From grandmothers to gravediggers, the sudden, suffocating deaths of the coronavirus pandemic is affecting people in all sectors of South African society. Here’s one...
The dark smell of illness: One family’s struggle for news from inside the ICU
You can’t visit family members with COVID-19 in hospital. So how do you find out how they’re doing? Mia Malan from the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism documented
one woman’s story.
Diepsloot: Where men think it’s their right to rape
Crime stats released in 2015 reported a drop in rape cases, but experts say this is because fewer people are bothering to report rapes to the police.
Silent killer lurks in miners’ lungs
Silicosis might appear only 15 years after exposure to gold ore dust, long after they have gone home. Heidi Swart reports.
Uncut, unwed and cast out, but a better life awaited
In rural Kenya, a group of strong-willed women is giving traumatised young runaways a second chance at life.
Child rape in Diepsloot: The shocking story that sparked outrage
Read an excerpt from the award-winning story that kick-started a campaign to link survivors of rape and gender-based violence to care.
Vaccines in the time of cholera: Inside the new fight against an old foe
Why the world is just waking up to the power of immunisations to tackle this infectious disease and how we’re learning more with every rainy season.
My descent into postpartum psychosis – and how I got out
A new mother recounts how psychiatric care that nurtured her bond with her baby helped heal her mania.
Could a water birth be right for you? Weigh up the pros and cons
More South African parents are choosing to bring their baby into the world with a splash, but is it better than conventional births?
Investigation reveals shocking conditions at NGOs caring for disabled people
Report unearths neglect in Kenyan institutions, yet discrimination means children may be at risk of being killed if they remain in communities
Home visits give instant HIV results and data set to guide more than a...
The population assessments of the epidemic in sub-Sahara yields information of benefit to patients and to each nation’s plan of action