Long Form

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.

Find out which nordic nation radically cut teenage smoking, drinking and drug use and how they did it.

Abandoned as children, women in Harare are now teaching one another to fight for their futures.

Autistic children experience the world differently, but this doesn’t stop them from learning.

State cancer patients have nowhere to turn, even if their cancer is treatable.

The substance is critical in pregnancy and in the development of children; a lack of it has dire consequences.

It starts with a swab but does it end with a diagnosis? Why the trickiest part of DIY HIV testing happens after the test.

Traditional West African ‘healers’ and Sicilian psychiatrists are struggling to help free Nigerian women forced into prostitution.

Despite our complicated relationship with it, our poo could one day power our cell phones, tablets and laptops.

Ikponwosa Ero went from a child who felt different to the United Nations’ first independent expert on albinism.

The Finns’ cardboard box prompts an African graduate to develop a life-saving device for babies.

Finally capping its own medics, the country must now retain them and coax them into rural areas.

A new mother recounts how psychiatric care that nurtured her bond with her baby helped heal her mania.

Angelina might just have saved a life. But is there science to prove it?

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

Older antibiotic staples are no longer moneymakers. But as modern bugs evolve to outwit them, very few new drugs are ready to take their place.