A tale of two pandemics: Is COVID-19 repeating the mistakes of HIV’s past?
In South Africa, two outbreaks are colliding and one thing may shape the future of both.
‘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.
Raising hope: From street child to mother
Abandoned as children, women in Harare are now teaching one another to fight for their futures.
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.
Cobras & cures: Why the world is running chronically low on snake antivenom
Each year, millions will be bitten by venomous snakes and for many, antivenom will remain painfully out of reach. Discovering why is a tale...
Can you can turn yourself into a broccoli-loving, marathon-running genius?
We used to believe our brains couldn’t be changed. Now we believe they can – if we want it enough. But is that true?
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.
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.
Kids are having sex. We need to help teen moms, not punish them
Otlotleng Moolikwe fell pregnant after having sex with her boyfriend when she was 13 years old. And she’s not the only one. One in six South African teenagers between 15 and 19 years old have had a child. Here’s how to help them stay in school.
Black? A woman? Read why you’re more likely to be a victim of online...
Are social media algorithms designed to prey the mental health of women and people of colour?
The promise and peril of ditching South Africa’s psychiatric hospitals
Community mentalhealth care can be better for patients and health systems if it's done right.
Find out how one organisation is making it work.
How to fund a failing health system
Could Zimbabwe's new Health Development Fund rescue the country's cash-strapped clinics and hospitals?
‘I was married to a Boko Haram’: What happens when a victim returns to...
Eighty two of the Chibok school girls, kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria three years ago, have been released. But what now?
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?
‘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.
Poisonous haze: Why the air we breathe could kill us
Climate change and air pollution could be conspiring against the continent, and fuelling new levels of death and disease.