Long Form

Traditional and Western healers team up to treat patients with HIV and tuberculosis because many people consult more than one health system.

Psychiatrists have since turned to antidepressants, mood stabilisers and antipsychotics that aren’t curative.

In the first of a two-part series, a band of doctors set out to reclaim LSD and ecstasy for mental health treatments.

South African jails are making notable strides in screening for, and curing, tuberculosis.

From taxi driver to TB-care champion, Zamani Dlamini brings hope to the sick in rural KwaZulu-Natal.

Crime stats released in 2015 reported a drop in rape cases, but experts say this is because fewer people are bothering to report rapes to the police.

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

A cruel, unrelenting cycle of poverty, drinking and fetal alcohol syndrome robs families of all hope.

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

HIV-positive pregnant women get sound advice from mothers who can empathise.

Doctors say Dihlabeng hospital doesn't have the medicine and staff to help patients.

Can the banting diet cure binge-eating disorder? Mia Malan follows one person's journey.

Rekindling the sexual fire of a once passionate marriage has sparked a deeper emotional link.

Refugees run the border crossing gauntlet of lions, rivers, rape and theft hoping for a better life.

This doctor returned to his home town to live, love and heal.

Many women consult traditional healers, so it makes sense to enlist these cultural leaders in public health education.