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Both overweight and underweight children are considered to be malnourished.

‘Malnutrition: Toddlers are almost as often overweight as they are underweight’

Mia Malan -
Codeine products are available over the counter in South Africa. But codeine is addictive and the products can be abused.

Is codeine Africa’s drug of choice?

Amy Green -
Non-lung TB

World: Stop turning your back on TB

Dereck Tait -
80 out of 1000 women in Africa have unplanned pregnancies.

Women in Africa least likely to use contraception

Amy Green -
Thousands of desperately ill people in Nigeria choose to be healed by TB Joshua

Spreading false hope and endangering people’s lives: Why do so many...

George Claassen -
At least one in four children in Africa is still not receiving the vaccinations they need.

African leaders step up to the plate to narrow immunisation gaps

Charles Shey Wiysonge -
Over-treatment of malaria can lead to an unnecessary waste of antimalarial medication.

Why over-treating malaria in Africa is a problem, and how it...

Eleanor Ochodo -
A nurse treats a young patient's buruli ulcer with a clay poultice.

Buruli ulcer: Africa’s neglected but third most common mycobacterial disease

Lydia Mosi -
The WHO says that polio could be eradicated in the next 12 months.

Polio cases could be wiped out within 12 months, says World...

Lisa O'Carroll -
Africa needs more emergency care specialists to prevent unnecessary deaths due to a lack of capacity and training.

Why emergency care in Africa needs to become a specialised course

Stevan Bruijns -
The best available data shows that in 2014

Pharma funding for TB research four times less than government funding

Vinayak Bhardwaj -
A man grabs a girl to bring her back to her family home after she tried to escape when she realised she is to be married against her will

How schooling can save African girls from becoming child brides

Michael Addaney -
Shield: A Tanzanian woman and her child use a mosquito net as a preventative measure against malaria.

Malaria has been beaten back – but children are still dying

Amy Green -
Because of the complexity of the malaria parasite

Innovation and technology will help to wipe out malaria

Amy Green -
Boys prepare fishing boats for night fishing in Lake Tanganyika at sunset.

Fishing and family planning – how the two are linked

Mustafa G Kudrati -
Mobile tech: A malaria-fighting secret weapon for Africa?

Mobile tech: A malaria-fighting secret weapon for Africa?

Amy Green and Dylan Bush -
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