Long Form

Despite our complicated relationship with it, our poo could one day power our cell phones, tablets and laptops.

Abandoned as children, women in Harare are now teaching one another to fight for their futures.

Mia Malan describes the arduous trek an Eastern Cape woman had to undertake to get medical attention for her sick grandson.

After Sierra Leone’s civil war, money poured in for mental health services. But a decade later, there's little left to help Ebola’s victims.

A new mother recounts how psychiatric care that nurtured her bond with her baby helped heal her mania.

In court, comfort for the tiniest victims of sexual abuse can come from the unlikeliest of places.“All rise,” a voice declares as the...

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

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

Mothers blame themselves and their children can never give up their antiretrovirals.

Could Zimbabwe's new Health Development Fund rescue the country's cash-strapped clinics and hospitals?

You can’t visit family members with COVID-19 in hospital. So how do you find out how they’re doing? Mia Malan from the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism documented one woman’s story.

In rural Kenya, a group of strong-willed women is giving traumatised young runaways a second chance at life.

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

Traditional West African ‘healers’ and Sicilian psychiatrists are struggling to help free Nigerian women forced into prostitution.

Scientists studied soldiers with PTSD and even children who'd witnessed a great tragedy. Did they unlock the secrets of resilience?

Could psychosocial programmes turn extremists into moderates?