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)
When police crashed her wedding, she was 8. Her soon-to-be husband was 67.
Across the continent, women are helping to reimagine a sacred rite of passage in an effort to honour their cultures and spare their bodies.
How to pack the best lunch for your kids in five easy steps
Not up to the daily dilemma of what to pack your little ones for lunch? Beef up your children’s lunch boxes with these quick tips.
Youth-friendly sexual health clinics put Ugandans at ease
Clinics dedicated to young people are ideal but the poor nation struggles to provide at least a basic service for those who can't access them.
“People have normalised rape… but no one talks about abortion. When I do, the...
With terminations outlawed in Kenya, women and girls in its largest slum have to rely on expensive and unreliable under-the-counter pills, toxic chemicals or...
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 it.
In February...
#QuarantineChronicles: The girl who cracked
Being isolated for days on end was too much for this student, locked up alone in her dormitory room in Wuhan, China. Her friends...
Gaming medicine: Virtual reality is bringing real-time relief for chronic pain
Virtual reality isn’t just for video games anymore. It’s revolutionising medicine, including the way we manage pain.
From our archives: This disposable piece of technology might save your life – if...
Many diabetics are dependent on expensive blood sugar testing strips to stay alive. Most in South Africa can't afford it.
Bringing home baby when your bae is HIV positive & you’re not
Sperm washing, assisted insemination & long hospital waits — if you were lucky. This is what falling pregnant when you were HIV-positive used to...
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?
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.
#AIDS2016:“I’ve taken control of my sex life. I use an HIV prevention pill.”
An HIV prevention pill can reduce HIV-negative people's chances of contracting HIV by more than 90%.
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?
‘My neighbour murdered nearly all of my family, but now we are friends’
Thanks to a pioneering project survivors and perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide now live side by side in 'reconciliation villages'.
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.