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Reusable sanitary towels are cheaper than regular pads and tampons but the state is failing to distribute these to schoolgirls from poor families.

Stigma can ruin the lives of young mothers, but there is support available that can keep their futures bright.

When a child is emotionally manipulated by one parent to hate the other, the legal system and therapists grapple with how to help families repair their relationships. Here’s why so-called parental alienation cases are contentious.

In 2017, Lesotho became the first African country to legalise cannabis. Nearly six years later, the industry is yet to change the country’s fortunes.

Healthcare for Kenya's semi-nomadic communities comes in an unlikely form of camels, who carry medicine to the country's most remote villages.

Mental health patients in Johannesburg's East Rand are hard hit by the unavailability of medication.

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.

A Harare rehabilitation unit offers impaired youngsters free therapy and supports parents too.

From grandmothers to gravediggers, the sudden, suffocating deaths of the coronavirus pandemic is affecting people in all sectors of South African society. Here’s one Cape Town family’s story of life after death. 

From growing up without a telephone to her appointment as the chief director of digital health systems in the national health department, the sweep of Milani Wolmarans’s life story is as wide as it is inspiring. Sean Christie spoke to her in Tshwane.

The government's focus on small-scale irrigation has given hope and sustenance to some districts.

The residents of a Nigerian village had no health services, save for traditional methods, to treat those with a fever and a rash.

An ambitious project to map the human brain has vast medical potential – if it's possible.

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.

The Earth is getting hotter and extreme weather events are becoming more common. It’s bad news for our lives. We break down how climate change links to poor health.

For millennials, it ain't looking good, but are hard-hitting campaigns just fat-shaming and counterproductive?