Long Form

Virtual reality isn’t just for video games anymore. It’s revolutionising medicine, including the way we manage pain.

Eighty two of the Chibok school girls, kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria three years ago, have been released. But what now?

Speaking more than one language could lead to better tests scores and even being a more empathetic person.

Refugee resettlement camps offer a safer space for South Sudanese children, who make up 64% of all refugees in Uganda.

Blind football represents hope and belonging for Egypt's one million visually impaired.

Morphine was first introduced to Uganda 30 years ago, but as the burden of cancer increases, thousands of people still lack access to even basic treatment for pain relief.

Many Ugandans were once refugees themselves. Now, they are 'paying back the good' and making their country one of the best in the world for refugees.

Pharmacy expert Andy Gray is the “insider’s insider” in South Africa’s public health sphere. Get to know him better here.

Accessing healthcare in this rural town has never been easy. Shortages of staff as well as medical equipment makes it difficult for this hospital to function.

Rare diseases lead to development of new drugs that, like other rare commodities command high prices.

The pain of bereavement is supposed to ease with time. When it doesn't, psychiatrists call it 'complicated grief' and it can be treated.

For years, catching this drug-resistant bacteria meant painful treatment that risked your hearing and mental health. Now, that could be changing.

In a binge-drinking community parents often give their children alcohol, or they get it in the womb.

Botched births and infections can leave many babies with a life-long inheritance: Cerebral palsy. Many will be dependent on caregivers for their entire lives, but could switching up the way we think about treating the condition provide children and carers some respite?

Are faith-based NGOs breaking the law when they refuse to give women information on where to terminate their pregnancies?

To understand Mpumalanga's teen pregnancies, look closely at the much older men calling the shots.