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3D-printed prosthetic limbs: The next revolution in medicine
The process could transform manufacturing and help the 30 million people worldwide in need of artificial limbs and braces.
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?
The dark smell of illness: One family’s struggle for news from inside the ICU
You can’t visit family members with COVID-19 in hospital. So how do you find out how they’re doing? Mia Malan from the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism documented
one woman’s story.
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)
Cobras & cures: Why the world is running chronically low on snake antivenom
Millions will be bitten by venomous snakes each year and for many, antivenom will remain painfully out of reach. Here's why.
What do a herd of goats, a few cattle, and a baby have in...
Here's how northwest Kenya gets nomadic families to health services.
#FreeToBleed: Here’s why Mboweni’s announcement of free & tax-free pads matters
Choosing between eating & bleeding through your uniform has a cost. Take a look at the reality behind the budget in this one from our archives.
Football like you’ve never seen it: On the pitch with this blind soccer team
Blind football represents hope and belonging for Egypt's one million visually impaired.
‘Health’ and ‘care’ play second fiddle to Free State bullying
The Free State health department has come under fire for a number of reasons. Bhekisisa visited the province ahead of elections to find out more.
‘It’s the Free State hospital that killed my husband, Frik’
Doctors say Dihlabeng hospital doesn't have the medicine and staff to help patients.
‘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?
‘Cancer I could deal with. Losing my breast I could not.’
For those with breast cancer, a mastectomy may seem like the best option. But Joanna Moorhead is glad she chose less extensive surgery.
‘God make us strong, I beg you, keep Luphumlo alive’
Mia Malan describes the arduous trek an Eastern Cape woman had to undertake to get medical attention for her sick grandson.
Breathing in a deadly dust: How a drop of blood can help
A new tool may help to keep workers who breathe in silica dust safe from silicosis — at less than R50 a prick.
Could this country be among the world’s best for refugees?
Many Ugandans were once refugees themselves. Now, they are 'paying back the good' and making their country one of the best in the world for refugees.
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.