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In Nairobi's Mukuru kwa Reuben, residents face a grim reality: homes repeatedly flooded by sewage due to dysfunctional drainage. This article explores the profound psychological…
Sasha Stevenson, Executive Director of SECTION27, reflects on over a decade of fighting for human rights in South Africa. From securing healthcare access for migrants against…
Northern Mozambique has been absorbing what humanitarian groups call “multiple shocks” for years. Conflict, cyclones, cholera, displacement; each arriving before the last has…
Amid the mostly depressing HIV headlines of recent times, concerned as they mainly are with the deadly impacts of donor defunding, South Africa’s imminent roll-out of a…
In Burkina Faso, more than 70 languages are spoken, armed conflict continues to escalate and half the country’s psychiatrists have left. With few mental health services…
Norbert Ndjeka was born on World TB Day. Decades later, he would reshape how South Africa treats the deadliest forms of the disease
Six years after Cyclone Idai ripped through Beira, the city’s wounds — physical and psychological — are still raw. As a new storm gathered in the Indian Ocean in February,…
A growing body of evidence suggests that unpredictable weather linked to climate change has the potential to injure people’s minds, leading to an increase in the development of…
From porters to engineers, hospital staff navigate chronic underfunding and staffing shortages while maintaining world-class care at one of South Africa’s most storied medical…
From discontinued insulin pens to overpriced TB drugs, meet the young South African holding drug makers to account on behalf of patients
Ndiviwe Mphothulo, a medical doctor and president of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society, is trying to make sure the Trump administration’s funding cuts don’t collapse…
Francois Venter talks about his unorthodox inaugural lecture, his work during the Aids crisis and his shoot-from-the-hip fix of our healthcare system
When Zane Wilson faced crippling panic attacks, she struggled to find help. So she decided to do something about it
The temporary shutdown of the supply from Lesotho is not the problem
Twenty-eight years after the first South African students left for Cuba to study medicine, an increasing number are in senior leadership positions in healthcare
