Long Form

Here's how northwest Kenya gets nomadic families to health services.

Already used in countries like Namibia, the ambulances could help cut child and maternal mortality rates.

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

For grandmothers across Côte d’Ivoire, climate change has had unexpected consequences. Once abundant with crop life, sustenance farming has become an unpredictable nightmare in the country’s villages. Young people of working age are now leaving villages in droves — without their children.

Ebola wiped out nearly 10% of Liberia’s doctors and nurses. Take a look at life for those it left behind.

From growing up without a telephone to her appointment as the chief director of digital health systems in the national health department, the sweep of Milani Wolmarans’s life story is as wide as it is inspiring. Sean Christie spoke to her in Tshwane.

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

Traditional and Western healers team up to treat patients with HIV and tuberculosis because many people consult more than one health system.

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

Nine years after a Grade R learner, Michael Komape, drowned in a pit toilet at his school in Limpopo, 2 334 schools in the province still have these structures on their premises. Here are the hits and misses of the education department’s efforts to get rid of them since — and what they can learn from India.

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

At a conference towards the end of last year, some of the great names in African public healthcare shared their lessons about what can — and can’t — work on the continent, from setting up new hospitals to implementing national health insurance. Sean Christie was there.

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

A disease that claims the lives of two children under five a minute worldwide has hit drought-stricken Kenya hard, its spread driven by malnutrition.

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.

When TB strikes, the fight to live can come at the cost of a way of life for the country's nomads. This could help ease the pain.