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For decades, we’ve struggled to solve the riddle: How do you get reluctant men to test for HIV. Could we finally have an answer?

An adherence club helped almost all patients stay on their treatment.

ARVs have transformed Cotlands hospice from a place for the dying into a childcare centre where the living thrive.

Jacket would detect symptoms up to four times faster than a doctor.

Corporate watchdog urges clean-up of supply chains as analysis finds weak regulation and enforcement has led to lack of scrutiny.

In the small rural town of Chivhu, Zimbabwe, 10-year-old Grace Zvarebwa is training for a pan-African schools chess tournament in Liberia. Chess is an activity normally reserved for the country’s elite schools, but the sport has transformed the lives of rural school girls like Zvarebwa.

This province reported skyrocketing rates of teen pregnancy but behind the figures lies a story about sex, knowledge and data.

Obstetrician Eddie Mhlanga often had to attend to women who had unsafe abortions during apartheid, when abortion was illegal in South Africa.

Here's the story of the Treatment Action Campaign or how a handful of people created a global movement that changed the world.

Being isolated for days on end was too much for this student, locked up alone in her dormitory room in Wuhan, China. Her friends haven’t seen her since the day she lost it, and that was weeks ago.

Numbers don't lie: A new report shows how people across the world keep piling on the kilos.

In 2019, diseases linked to air pollution killed 1.1-million people in Africa. Could electric motorcycles save lives with cleaner air?

25,000 grave violations were committed against children in conflict in 2019, says the UN, which hopes to highlight issue with new international day.

In the Free State, access to health services can depend on who you know, as the tragic case of one woman illustrates.

Across the continent, women are helping to reimagine a sacred rite of passage in an effort to honour their cultures and spare their bodies.

The country's health system is ravaged, but a team of volunteer doctors visit regularly: operating on the desperate and training local medical staff.