Long Form

Women in Somaliland are working together with an NGO to eliminate one of the most ancient and extreme practices of female genital mutilation.

An eighth-grade teenager shows how funky and strong her fight against a four-letter word is. Mia Malan reports.

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.

Most of us would rather not know what happens to our bodies after death. But that breakdown gives birth to new life in unexpected ways.

Could Zimbabwe's new Health Development Fund rescue the country's cash-strapped clinics and hospitals?

Mothers blame themselves and their children can never give up their antiretrovirals.

Dangerous myths persist about people living with albinism, but a community in Malawi has had enough.

Malawi says it will no longer enforce anti-homosexuality laws but dangerous homophobia persists on the country's streets - and in its clinics.

When TB strikes, the fight to live can come at the cost of a way of life for the country's nomads. This could help ease the pain.

Can the banting diet cure binge-eating disorder? Mia Malan follows one person's journey.

Get to know sexual and reproductive rights activist and doctor Tlaleng Mofokeng with our reporter Sean Christie.

The process could transform manufacturing and help the 30 million people worldwide in need of artificial limbs and braces.

Many diabetics are dependent on expensive blood sugar testing strips to stay alive. Most in South Africa can't afford it.

In many ways, violence is like cholera, passing from person to person and treating it in similar ways is working to reduce it.

The Finns’ cardboard box prompts an African graduate to develop a life-saving device for babies.

Somalia is facing a humanitarian crisis. Many people have been displaced due to climate change-induced droughts, and conflict between the army and al-Shabaab has left many regions without food.