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The small study looking to repurpose an old TB vaccine could help add to a growing field of science that asks, can you really reprogramme your immune system?

At 23 years old, Emma Theofelus is one of Africa's youngest Cabinent members. And taking office during the coronavirus epidemic has been a trial by fire.

You don't have to run 5km to feel fatigued. Turns out stress and anxiety can also leave you craving a good lie-in, but could tips to cope come from an unlikely place — the diaries of a 1900s' sea captain?

The decrease has allowed the province to get rid of dangerous one-person ambulance crews, but many patients still wait hours for help.

What makes the world’s most successful children’s TV programmes so addictive – and so strange? Linda Geddes explores the research on kids’ TV, what it’s teaching us about childhood development, and how that can help make programmes for the better.

Can Tobacco money ever be washed clean? Most researchers at the University of Cape Town say no.

The United Nations declaration on universal health coverage is signed. But will South Africa's National Health Insurance improve services at home?

On Monday, world leaders will sign a UN declaration that could have committed the world to provide decent healthcare for all. But instead, activists say, some of the world's biggest health issues sparkle in their absence. Find out what it means for South Africa’s National Health Insurance in the latest in our new series, Compass: Charting a course to the NHI.

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

With terminations outlawed in Kenya, women and girls in its largest slum have to rely on expensive and unreliable under-the-counter pills, toxic chemicals or other homemade remedies.

Take a look at the newest HIV treatment set to hit South Africa's shores in 2019.

One in three French people think vaccines are unsafe. Here's how the country is fighting antivaxxers through social media.

Policy bans aid going to foreign groups that support abortion rights as secretary of state Pompeo says: ‘This is decent and right’

Women who have been forced to go without their usual birth control shot are now facing the consequences of months-long shortages.

Zimbabwe’s tight abortion laws aren’t curbing demand, they’re driving them underground — and it’s about to get worse.

Does sex work legislation have an impact on violence and the spread of HIV? We follow two women who operate in opposite worlds to find out.