Long Form

The process could transform manufacturing and help the 30 million people worldwide in need of artificial limbs and braces.

Some small-scale black tobacco farmers in Limpopo feel that the tobacco industry supported them under the guise of an upliftment programme, but then used them to fight against illicit tobacco trade. By 2021, the financial support dried up.

Dembe Ndou learned to play piano in no time at all, but simply chatting is a complex challenge.

Refugee resettlement camps offer a safer space for South Sudanese children, who make up 64% of all refugees in Uganda.

A marathon runner with prostate cancer uses his skill to promote awareness and encourage testing.

A cruel, unrelenting cycle of poverty, drinking and fetal alcohol syndrome robs families of all hope.

Accessing healthcare in this rural town has never been easy. Shortages of staff as well as medical equipment makes it difficult for this hospital to function.

Angelina might just have saved a life. But is there science to prove it?

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

Specialist doctors at many state facilities aren’t showing up to work despite earning millions of rands a year in taxpayer money. The consequences for patient health can be devastating but not everyone agrees on the solutions.

Are social media algorithms designed to prey the mental health of women and people of colour?

We feature four HIV positive women in their 40s who fit the profile of a typical M&G reader.

With a black beret “à la the EFF” and fire-engine red scrubs, Ebrahim Variava is not scared to speak out against the ills of a broken public health system — something that got him suspended from his post as head of internal medicine at the Tshepong Hospital in Klerksdorp in 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 crisis. Meet the doctor for whom patients are always the priority.

In many ways, violence is like cholera, passing from person to person and treating it in similar ways is working to reduce it.

A stockout of the version of testosterone (made by Pfizer) used by state facilities and nonprofits is entering its second year. It’s left transgender men in South Africa, who use the hormone as part of gender-affirming treatment, with few options. Find out what lengths they’re forced to go to get the medicine.

Crime stats released in 2015 reported a drop in rape cases, but experts say this is because fewer people are bothering to report rapes to the police.