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Ghana plans to release the modified seeds this year or next. Will they benefit the small farmers they were designed for?

This clinic used monthly SMSes to remind HIV-positive teens to collect their pills until one day... Take a look at the power and pitfalls of mhealth.

A deadly conflict is brewing between those forced out of the DRC's Kahuzi-Biéga national park and the rangers charged with protecting it.

Death comes for us all and when it does, we hope it’s a good one. We hope it has meaning, we hope it’s painless and that those we leave behind are cared for. Turns out, it doesn’t matter if you’re 80 or eight.

From how to spice up your sex life to the more mundane, “does this look weird to you”, there are some questions you just don’t want to ask your friends and family. Relax. Now, there’s an app for that.

When kids at risk of suicide can talk to trained friends & family, they're seven times less likely to die, says one of the world's largest studies.

Why the woes facing South Africa’s Thuthuzela Care Centres may not be as unique as we thought.

A rare condition has caused this man’s body to age at super speed. Why?

In the rarely visited town of Gedeb, fears are rife over state plans to return 150 000 people to areas they fled because of ethnic violence.

These ATMs can decrease the number of patients in clinics but health workers are not helping to achieve that goal.

Scientists and campaigners warn that factories in coastal villages are wreaking environmental and economic havoc.

Why the storm may have conspired with a savage drought to deliver a deadly second blow to Zimbabwe where 70% of people are in dire need of food.

Before 2011, this country couldn’t screen for cervical cancer let alone prevent it. Since then everything’s changed.

This country tested out a national health insurance. Find out what happened next.

In Kivalo, where cyclones, overfishing and rising seas threaten livelihoods, beekeeping offers an unlikely alternative to fishing.

South Africa's public health nurses are infamous for having bad attitudes. Could a pair of goggles help them change their ways?