The boys who lost their manhood
During this initiation season, we look back at what happened in 2013 when bungled initiations cost boys their penises.
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.
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.
How this country is beating anti-vaxxers at their own game
One in three French people think vaccines are unsafe. Here's how the country is fighting antivaxxers through social media.
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?
Bosasa, Gavin Watson & the human cost of corruption
Bosasa bribed its way into contracts. Meet the four-year-old who paid the price.
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.
Doing the ‘tramadol dance’: What this latest music craze says about Africa’s pill addiction
Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt takes a look at the global sensation — the tramadol dance — that’s topping the charts in Africa’s effort to curb drug abuse.
The WHO, the drug & women’s right to choose: The story behind dolutegravir
Take a look at the newest HIV treatment set to hit South Africa's shores in 2019.
‘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 DRC’s deadly outbreak.
The magistrate’s tail: How these pets are helping child rape victims get justice
In court, comfort for the tiniest victims of sexual abuse can come from the unlikeliest of places.
“All rise,” a voice declares as the...
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.
Meet Zweli Mkhize, the man behind SA’s #COVID-19 response
Can the health minister fix our health system and what will it take? Here’s what Mkhize’s character, views and his past experience as a doctor tell us.
Life on a hotter earth: Depression, drought & decolonising mental health
As the climate crisis wears on, it's taking a toll on our mental health and indigenous knowledge systems may hold the key to helping us weather the storm.
Acid attacks: ‘I didn’t have the money to buy justice, but I had brains...
In the wake of acid attacks, victims — often women — can feel hopeless. Now, women around the world are fighting back.
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.