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.
Bosasa, Gavin Watson & the human cost of corruption
Bosasa bribed its way into contracts. Meet the four-year-old who paid the price.
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Many diabetics are dependent on expensive blood sugar testing strips to stay alive. Most in South Africa can't afford it.
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Scientists studied soldiers with PTSD and even children who'd witnessed a great tragedy. Did they unlock the secrets of resilience?
Why science could finally be close to solving this birth control riddle
We could be just months away from knowing whether Depo-Provera use is linked to a higher risk of HIV infection in women.
Trafficked to Turin: The Nigerian women forced into sex work abroad in Italy
Thousands of women are lured from Nigeria to Italy annually by the promise of a new life, only to find themselves trapped in the sex trade.
Malawi to halt prosecutions against LGBTI community
Malawi says it will no longer enforce anti-homosexuality laws but dangerous homophobia persists on the country's streets - and in its clinics.
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.
Old birth rites, new ways
When bringing a new life into the world risks taking another, even old traditions have to adopt new ways.
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)
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.
When the sorrow doesn’t end: Could chronic grief be a medical condition?
The pain of bereavement is supposed to ease with time. When it doesn't, psychiatrists call it 'complicated grief' and it can be treated.
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.
Gauteng mental health services: ‘They treated him like you don’t even treat a dog’
A decision by the Gauteng department of health has left at least 36 dead but has the scandal lifted the lid on the horrors of mental healthcare?
‘I would have killed myself’: Free app puts care at rape survivors’ fingertips
In Diepsloot, Bhekisisa's Vimba! app is helping rape survivors access life-saving care and treatment.
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.