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This costs just cents and could prevent half-a-million children from going blind
The substance is critical in pregnancy and in the development of children; a lack of it has dire consequences.
Is DIY HIV testing the latest Cape Town trend?
It starts with a swab but does it end with a diagnosis? Why the trickiest part of DIY HIV testing happens after the test.
‘Juju curse’ binds trafficked women into sex slavery
Traditional West African ‘healers’ and Sicilian psychiatrists are struggling to help free Nigerian women forced into prostitution.
A new loo: Gaze into the toilet bowl of the future
Despite our complicated relationship with it, our poo could one day power our cell phones, tablets and laptops.
Waiting to disappear: The danger of being too pale
Ikponwosa Ero went from a child who felt different to the United Nations’ first independent expert on albinism.
Would you put your baby in a cardboard box? Check out this parenting trend
The Finns’ cardboard box prompts an African graduate to develop a life-saving device for babies.
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.
My descent into postpartum psychosis – and how I got out
A new mother recounts how psychiatric care that nurtured her bond with her baby helped heal her mania.
Angelina Jolie takes on her biggest role — as a TB-sniffing rat
Angelina might just have saved a life. But is there science to prove it?
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.
Penicillin shortages as pharma companies eye newer, more lucrative drugs
Older antibiotic staples are no longer moneymakers. But as modern bugs evolve to outwit them, very few new drugs are ready to take their place.
‘I would have killed myself’: Free app puts care at rape survivors’ fingertips
In Diepsloot, Bhekisisa's Vimba! app is helping rape survivors access life-saving care and treatment.
Hospitals introduce sign language to bridge gap between the deaf and care
Some hospitals are introducing sign language to help deaf patients.
Will strikes pit the rights of doctors against those of their patients?
The quest for better working conditions leaves striking doctors with a tough decision but they might not have to choose.
How to fund a failing health system
Could Zimbabwe's new Health Development Fund rescue the country's cash-strapped clinics and hospitals?
Afraid of death? Take comfort that you’ll live on in varied and surprising ways
Most of us would rather not know what happens to our bodies after death. But that breakdown gives birth to new life in unexpected ways.