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When class is in session, would-be "attackers" lunge at women in mock muggings. For survivors, classes can be triggering... but that might be the point, argue some experts.

When this queer woman's activism put her at the centre of a village-ordered hit, a sex worker saved her life. Go behind their story of love, life, fear and solidarity in one of the most homophobic countries in the world.

Corporate watchdog urges clean-up of supply chains as analysis finds weak regulation and enforcement has led to lack of scrutiny.

From the Ganges River to Ghana, drones are delivering vaccines, HIV tests and blood transfusions around the world and cutting waiting times for life-saving healthcare. But is all that glitters really gold when it comes to the next big thing in health?

When hospitals are few and far between, these shelters become homes away from home for expecting mothers. Find out how countries around the world are getting mothers to book in for better births starting right here close to home.

With terminations outlawed in Kenya, women and girls in its largest slum have to rely on expensive and unreliable under-the-counter pills, toxic chemicals or other homemade remedies.

Sperm washing, assisted insemination & long hospital waits — if you were lucky. This is what falling pregnant when you were HIV-positive used to look like. But things are changing for the better.

Ghana plans to release the modified seeds this year or next. Will they benefit the small farmers they were designed for?

This clinic used monthly SMSes to remind HIV-positive teens to collect their pills until one day... Take a look at the power and pitfalls of mhealth.

A deadly conflict is brewing between those forced out of the DRC's Kahuzi-Biéga national park and the rangers charged with protecting it.

Death comes for us all and when it does, we hope it’s a good one. We hope it has meaning, we hope it’s painless and that those we leave behind are cared for. Turns out, it doesn’t matter if you’re 80 or eight.

From how to spice up your sex life to the more mundane, “does this look weird to you”, there are some questions you just don’t want to ask your friends and family. Relax. Now, there’s an app for that.

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.

Why the woes facing South Africa’s Thuthuzela Care Centres may not be as unique as we thought.

A rare condition has caused this man’s body to age at super speed. Why?

In the rarely visited town of Gedeb, fears are rife over state plans to return 150 000 people to areas they fled because of ethnic violence.