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‘Most renewable energy companies’ linked with claims of abuses in mines
Corporate watchdog urges clean-up of supply chains as analysis finds weak regulation and enforcement has led to lack of scrutiny.
Crisis of confidence: How much does the public really trust scientists, doctors and nurses?
More than 70% of people surveyed by the Wellcome Global Monitor reported trusting scientists, doctors and nurses but there is no room for complacency.
Pandas or people? When the fight to save the planet pits conservation against indigenous...
A deadly conflict is brewing between those forced out of the DRC's Kahuzi-Biéga national park and the rangers charged with protecting it.
Conflict and insecurity driving spread of diseases like Ebola, WHO chief warns
The Democratic Republic of Congo's deadly Ebola outbreak is ‘global wake-up call’ says World Health Organisation head, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
‘Most complex health crisis in history’: Congo struggles to contain Ebola
Political, security and cultural complications – not least a refusal to believe that Ebola exists – have thwarted efforts to overcome DRC’s deadly outbreak.
This president is putting his money where his mouth is when it comes to...
Mali joins the ranks of countries such as Sierra Leone, South Africa & Burkina Faso to provide free healthcare to moms and tots.
Sex for vaccines: Violence may mar the rollout of Ebola jab
Women in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo are allegedly being asked for sexual favours in exchange for Ebola treatment.
Why money earmarked to fight Ebola may have financed one man’s love life
The World Health Organization launches an inquiry after claims of ‘legendary’ corruption, including racism and sexism.
Antibiotic resistance: Three ways to stop the rise of the superbugs
We are facing possibly the greatest health threat of our time: drug-resistant infections. But here's why there's hope the world can change course.
Is your phone tainted by the misery of the 35 000 children in Congo’s...
Our computers and phones keep us connected but a key ingredient in them keeps children as young as six locked in a vicious cycle for about R26 a day.
The testing ground: Could an experimental vaccine save the DRC from Ebola?
The virus’ resurgence, this time in a city of more than one-million people could set the scene for a fast-spreading disaster.
Vaccines in the time of cholera: Inside the new fight against an old foe
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.
Is Nigeria really home to almost one in four of the world’s malaria cases?
International insecticide brand Mortein claims that Nigeria contributes 23% of the world’s malaria cases. Does the figure hit the mark?
Women forced into sex to pay hospital bills, study says
Patients too poor to settle medical debts are chained to drain pipes, starved and abused in health centres across parts of Africa.
Gasping for breath: Pneumonia’s deadly toll
A disease that claims the lives of two children under five a minute worldwide has hit drought-stricken Kenya hard, its spread driven by malnutrition.
Go inside the trucker craze fuelling a blackmarket in dangerous ‘sex enhancers’
The products themselves could be dangerous and are likely to encourage high-risk sexual behaviour.