#FreeToBleed: Here’s why Mboweni’s announcement of free & tax-free pads matters
Choosing between eating & bleeding through your uniform has a cost. Take a look at the reality behind the budget in this one from our archives.
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.
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.
‘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...
Why COVID school closures are making girls marry early
The pandemic’s impact is long-term: the UN warns that it could lead to 13 million more child marriages over a decade.
Could this birth trend make for more serene deliveries?
Water births are a growing phenomenon in South Africa and globally. But this birth method is controversial – scientific evidence is lacking.
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.
[From the archives] The lockdown women planning their escape from abusive homes
Take a look back at the barriers survivors of gender-based violence faced in the stricter levels of South Africa's coronavirus lockdown....
‘Juju curse’ binds trafficked women into sex slavery
Traditional West African ‘healers’ and Sicilian psychiatrists are struggling to help free Nigerian women forced into prostitution.
Tales from Trumpland: Health workers will be forced to bury aborted fetal tissue
In the war on women's bodies, the casualties stretch far beyond US' 50 states.
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.
Africa’s oldest psychiatric hospital a stark reminder of war and a forgotten people
After Sierra Leone’s civil war, money poured in for mental health services. But a decade later, there's little left to help Ebola’s victims.
Refugees ripped off at state hospitals
Poor people who have fled their countries are expected to pay steep rates for treatment at government hospitals in Gauteng.
Anyone can catch this drug-resistant bug. Surviving treatment is another story.
For years, catching this drug-resistant bacteria meant painful treatment that risked your hearing and mental health. Now, that could be changing.
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.
Meet the doctors: Take a look at this country’s first crop of homegrown physicians
Finally capping its own medics, the country must now retain them and coax them into rural areas.