Long Form

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?

Ivory Park's Operation Thiba Nyaope provides support for addicts and their affected families.

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

Disease-spreading mozzies may be getting wise to our best defences, but science is fighting back.

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

A mother's love led her to South Africa to find a school for her son with autism.

Healthworkers are being attacked by Myanmar’s military — observers say it’s a tactic of war.

It starts with a swab but does it end with a diagnosis? Why the trickiest part of DIY HIV testing happens after the test.

Where traditional beliefs are more real than textbooks, treating mental illness is a balancing act for sangomas and medical doctors alike.

The Shining Path insurgents in the 80s and 90s led a trail of destruction through the lives of indigenous Peruvians. Now, women are using dance to heal the trauma.

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

Somalia is facing a humanitarian crisis. Many people have been displaced due to climate change-induced droughts, and conflict between the army and al-Shabaab has left many regions without food.

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

“Dhaqan celis” was a term used by Somalis that used to mean the practice of going back home to stay with relatives and learn more about your culture. But it’s taken on a whole new – much darker – meaning. Read more on this practice.

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

Governments and even anonymous do-gooders are stepping into fill the funding gap left by the US decision, but their pockets will never be deep...