Features

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

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.

A horrifying experience at an illegal abortion provider led Gaopalelwe Phalaetsile to use social media to help women access safe abortion services

Terminally ill patients in the province have little access to pain relief, or basic care. Here's one man's story.

SA's listeria epidemic is over. Take a look at the detectives who traced the epidemic's source in this feature from our archives.

In Rwanda, schoolgirls can now buy locally produced, cheaper sanitary towels.

Long before red flags were raised, this family fell victim to listeriosis. And this week, tragedy has struck again.

Why the world is just waking up to the power of immunisations to tackle this infectious disease and how we’re learning more with every rainy season.

When Ella and her cousin reached a refugee camp in Sudan, it seemed to herald safety. Instead, it was the start of an all too familiar ordeal.

Governments and even anonymous do-gooders are stepping into fill the funding gap left by the US decision, but their pockets will never be deep...

For those with breast cancer, a mastectomy may seem like the best option. But Joanna Moorhead is glad she chose less extensive surgery.

We used to believe our brains couldn’t be changed. Now we believe they can – if we want it enough. But is that true?

Bond, James Bond: The source of the listeria outbreak will likely be found by a gene-sequencing machine named after the famous agent 007. (Delwyn Verasamy)

Partners and families allegedly drugged women and in some cases even physically restrained them as doctors performed the procedure.

Take a look at life after war for the women abducted by Ugandan rebel Joseph Kony.

The real revolution is yet to come when it relates to the country’s opioid epidemic.