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Thanks to a pioneering project survivors and perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide now live side by side in 'reconciliation villages'.

The substance is critical in pregnancy and in the development of children; a lack of it has dire consequences.

It starts with a swab but does it end with a diagnosis? Why the trickiest part of DIY HIV testing happens after the test.

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

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

Ikponwosa Ero went from a child who felt different to the United Nations’ first independent expert on albinism.

The Finns’ cardboard box prompts an African graduate to develop a life-saving device for babies.

When Mark died, emergency services left his body on the pavement in central Pretoria for hours.

All the rage in Finland, 'Moses baskets' could soon be coming to South African shores.

Finally capping its own medics, the country must now retain them and coax them into rural areas.

Men who abuse women have often been victims of maltreatment themselves resulting to the intergenerational cycling of abuse.

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

In this township, alcohol makes violent men close to three times more likely to rape a woman.Brown Lekekela heads over to the flipchart that...

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

Blind football represents hope and belonging for Egypt's one million visually impaired.

Less than 15% of patients seek out care for this vicious form of gangrene.