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

Ryan Lenora Brown -
A Burundian woman is treated for malaria. Does Nigeria really account for almost a quarter of the world's malaria cases? Well...

Is Nigeria really home to almost one in four of the...

Allwell Okpi -
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 -
Prophetess Odasani says she drives out the spirits afflicting women who come to her backstreet ‘church’ in Palermo.

‘Juju curse’ binds trafficked women into sex slavery

Lorenzo Totaro and Annie Kelly -
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 -
The road to life-saving treatment starts with a test and that's where men fall behind

Why does HIV kill more men than women?

Dean Peacock and Jonathan Hopkins -
Aisha Danyaya recovers from surgery in the Children’s Hospital in Sokoto, Nigeria. The disease can be fatal. (Adavize Baiye, MSF)

Inside the flesh-eating disease you’ve probably never heard about but should

Festus Iyorah -
Queer Nigerians' fear of being stigmatised compromises their access to health services

New research shows rising support for gay marriage ban

Nelisiwe Msomi -
Will smacking your kids make them violent?

Will smacking your kids make them violent?

Dylan Bush and Joan van Dyk -
Hotting up: Research suggests increasingly frequent heatwaves are cutting workers down in the prime of their lives.

Climate change turns dehydration into a deadly epidemic

Jane Palmer -
The report says at least 22 executions took place in five African countries in 2016

Numbers of Africans sentenced to die soars

Pontsho Pilane -
Why some people may not be over the moon about menstrual cups

Why some people may not be over the moon about menstrual...

Dylan Bush and Pontsho Pilane -
Inside the 'dead zone': In an outdoor laboratory at Texas' Sam Houston State University

Afraid of death? Take comfort that you’ll live on in varied...

Moheb Costandi -
Stolen: These girls

Boko Haram: ‘Deradicalisation’ is the only hope for the stolen when...

Adri Kotze -
Rachel Daniel

‘I was married to a Boko Haram’: What happens when a...

Eroma Egbejule -
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