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Talking about you and the loo: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's latest annual letter was released Tuesday.

Five ways to save the world, according to Bill & Melinda...

Roxy de Villiers -
Faux facts are travelling at lightning speed across the internet and they're bad for your health.

The rise of anti-vaxxer bots: Fake news is going viral —...

Junaid Nabi -
As good as a trainer... well

How to get the most out of your gym membership

Neil Gibson -
The panel found UNAids secretariat staff frequently spoke of the patriarchal style of leadership and the perception that senior management staff formed a ‘boys club.’

‘Boys club’ culture at UNAids allowed for sexual harassment and bullying...

Laura López González -
What’s behind mysterious cancer hot spots popping up all over the world?

Could this finally solve the Eastern Cape’s cancer mystery?

Kat Arney -
Nation of the hour: South Africa took on the United States when it went for the mat for affordable medicine access in the world's first UN declaration on TB.

What to expect from the world’s first high-level UN meeting on...

Laura López González -
Pneumonia kills more than 1.3-million children a year. But with this vaccine two out of every three children under five are immunised against pneumonia.

When it comes to vaccines, there really is safety in numbers....

Keith Klugman -
An organisation in Mozambique had to close down half of its youth clinics after it lost two-thirds of its funding because it refused to sign onto Trump’s global gag rule policy.

‘Gag Rule will slow down the fight against Aids’

Pontsho Pilane -
Newborn deaths would drop from a staggering 2.7-million a year to 538 000 if the world invested in women's health

Why it could cost less than R120 per year to save...

Alex Ezeh and Ann Starrs -
|Millennials could become the most obese generation ever by the time they reach 40 if trends continue

Obesity: Is eating slap tjips as bad as smoking?

Adri Kotze -
Eritrean women at a refugee camp in Sudan. Experts say kidnapping has become big business along the Eritrean border.

Captured, raped, ransomed: The kidnappers preying on teenagers far from home

Sally Hayden -

A grim anniversary: Hundreds of clinics close as Trump’s gag rule...

Ryan Lenora Brown -
A man takes a dose of methadone at Ar Rahman mosque in Kuala Lumpur

Myths and methadone: Will Egypt’s laws bend to the rising tide...

Ati Metwaly -
Read how almost two decades of research backs the assertion that when people are on effective HIV treatment and have undetectable viral loads they can't pass the virus onto others.

A short history of the big discovery that redefined safe sex...

Kevin Rebe -

Modern day slavery: ‘The girls trust the traffickers more than anyone’

Annie Kelly, Clementine Malpas, Laurence Topham, Claudine Spera and Richard Sprenger -
A girl living with albinism has her eyes tested. A new regional plan by the African Commission on Human and People's Rights calls for the affordable provision of eye care and sunscreen to people living with the condition.

Waiting to disappear: The danger of being too pale

Bill Snaddon -
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