Long Form

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.

Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt takes a look at the global sensation — the tramadol dance — that’s topping the charts in Africa’s effort to curb drug abuse.

Take a look at the newest HIV treatment set to hit South Africa's shores in 2019.

One in three French people think vaccines are unsafe. Here's how the country is fighting antivaxxers through social media.

Political, security and cultural complications – not least a refusal to believe that Ebola exists – have thwarted efforts to overcome DRC’s deadly outbreak.

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.

Since the country’s rollout, less than a quarter of people who’ve started taking the HIV prevention pill are young women — despite high HIV rates.

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

Women who have been forced to go without their usual birth control shot are now facing the consequences of months-long shortages.

When a few months of treatment costs as much as a house, some patients are taking their lives and the law into their own hands to survive.

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

Virtual reality isn’t just for video games anymore. It’s revolutionising medicine, including the way we manage pain.

Almost one in four babies born at public hospitals come into the world via c-section but is it costing some women their lives?

Does sex work legislation have an impact on violence and the spread of HIV? We follow two women who operate in opposite worlds to find out.

We could be just months away from knowing whether Depo-Provera use is linked to a higher risk of HIV infection in women.

Few governments are prepared to care for the people forced to leave their countries as a result of conflict or climate change. Here's why.