Long Form

This silent killer stalks expecting mothers around the world and is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in South Africa. But still many women can’t name it — or identify its symptoms. But if knowledge is power, is it enough to stem this deadly tide? Ghana is hoping to find out.

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

A new tool may help to keep workers who breathe in silica dust safe from silicosis — at less than R50 a prick.

Cases of domestic violence tick up while shelters lose their income and scramble to get ready for the silent, second crisis of gender-based violence that research suggests will follow the coronavirus pandemic.

Angelina might just have saved a life. But is there science to prove it?

In a binge-drinking community parents often give their children alcohol, or they get it in the womb.

Mentally disabled people in the rural Eastern Cape are considered worthless, even evil. When girls are sexually abused, mothers are no longer shocked.

In the first of a two-part series, a band of doctors set out to reclaim LSD and ecstasy for mental health treatments.

With the severe effects of the habit on the unborn child now widely known, why do pregnant mothers refuse to give up?

It was hailed as a revolution in private investment in healthcare in Africa but almost a decade after it was opened, Lesotho’s only specialist hospital takes up almost a third of the country’s entire health budget. Now, we may finally know why.

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

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

Community workers are twiddling their thumbs while the state drags its heels on a new strategy, writes Mia Malan.

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

The kidnapping of young girls ignores the 'niceties' of a cultural practice.

We feature four HIV positive women in their 40s who fit the profile of a typical M&G reader.