Long Form

Finally capping its own medics, the country must now retain them and coax them into rural areas.

The quest for better working conditions leaves striking doctors with a tough decision but they might not have to choose.

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.

In 2022, after a decade of service, Ben Gaunt, who led a team who transformed Zithulele Hospital in the Eastern Cape from a struggling public health facility into a poster child of excellence, left the facility. The drama, which followed the appointment of a controversial CEO, was well publicised. We spoke to Gaunt one year later.

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.

Bosasa bribed its way into contracts. Meet the four-year-old who paid the price.

Find out how drug users banded together to use a simple injection to save thousands of lives.

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

A month after she was wheeled out of a North West hospital in a barrow, Ntombizodwa Matthews met her end. Her family blames politics for her death.

When a child is emotionally manipulated by one parent to hate the other, the legal system and therapists grapple with how to help families repair their relationships. Here’s why so-called parental alienation cases are contentious.

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

For years, catching this drug-resistant bacteria meant painful treatment that risked your hearing and mental health. Now, that could be changing.

The WHO may have declared leprosy eliminated in 1998, but Bangladeshi tea pickers continue to be infected by the thousands.

When bringing a new life into the world risks taking another, even old traditions have to adopt new ways.

When it comes to leadership and innovation, there's much that industrialised nations can learn.

Already used in countries like Namibia, the ambulances could help cut child and maternal mortality rates.