Long Form

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

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

In Diepsloot, Bhekisisa's Vimba! app is helping rape survivors access life-saving care and treatment.

Refugees run the border crossing gauntlet of lions, rivers, rape and theft hoping for a better life.

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

Accessing healthcare in this rural town has never been easy. Shortages of staff as well as medical equipment makes it difficult for this hospital to function.

Psychiatrists have since turned to antidepressants, mood stabilisers and antipsychotics that aren’t curative.

Appalling conditions in Free State hospitals reveal a health care system that seems to be corrupt from top to bottom.

Dembe Ndou learned to play piano in no time at all, but simply chatting is a complex challenge.

As South Africa enters level two of its national lockdown, international travel remains restricted. One of the few exceptions are repatriation flights, which require a mandatory quarantine period. But the toll of mounting stress and isolation may have long-term consequences on people’s mental health.

Water births are a growing phenomenon in South Africa and globally. But this birth method is controversial – scientific evidence is lacking.

Unsafe terminations in Malawi may be curbed after a new law is enacted, but it’s just the first step

General anaesthetic is supposed to make surgery painless. Now there’s evidence that one person in 20 may be awake when doctors think they’re under.

Refugee resettlement camps offer a safer space for South Sudanese children, who make up 64% of all refugees in Uganda.

Sihle Batiya's luckier than most – but the odds are stacked against kids with Down's syndrome in the Eastern Cape.

For centuries, traditional religious practices have preserved the sacred forests of the Bijagós archipelago. Now missionaries are muscling in.