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This disposable piece of technology might save your life – if you can afford...
Many diabetics are dependent on expensive blood sugar testing strips to stay alive. Most in South Africa can't afford it.
Women of the Maasai fight back for their daughters
Girls as young as 10 feel the blade but an extraordinary group is fighting against female genital mutilation (FGM).
After Ebola: What happens when the virus fades and the NGOs — and money...
Ebola wiped out nearly 10% of Liberia’s doctors and nurses. Take a look at life for those it left behind.
‘I gave my children booze – and now I fear for their future’
In a binge-drinking community parents often give their children alcohol, or they get it in the womb.
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.
Pedal power: Malawi’s ‘rickshaw’ bush ambulances cycle the sick to care
Already used in countries like Namibia, the ambulances could help cut child and maternal mortality rates.
Old birth rites, new ways
When bringing a new life into the world risks taking another, even old traditions have to adopt new ways.
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.
Tales from Trumpland: Health workers will be forced to bury aborted fetal tissue
In the war on women's bodies, the casualties stretch far beyond US' 50 states.
Poisonous haze: Why the air we breathe could kill us
Climate change and air pollution could be conspiring against the continent, and fuelling new levels of death and disease.
The unforgiving days of too much wine and never enough roses
A cruel, unrelenting cycle of poverty, drinking and fetal alcohol syndrome robs families of all hope.
The promise and peril of ditching South Africa’s psychiatric hospitals
Community mental health care can be better for patients and health systems if it's done right.
Find out how one organisation is making it work.
Unlikely perk of prison life: Free, speedy TB treatment
South African jails are making notable strides in screening for, and curing, tuberculosis.
Malawi to halt prosecutions against LGBTI community
Malawi says it will no longer enforce anti-homosexuality laws but dangerous homophobia persists on the country's streets - and in its clinics.
‘I was married to a Boko Haram’: What happens when a victim returns to...
Eighty two of the Chibok school girls, kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria three years ago, have been released. But what now?
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.