From discontinued insulin pens to overpriced TB drugs, meet the young South African holding drug makers to account on behalf of patients

Much of the region is prey to armed groups, an aftermath of regional wars in the 1990s and 2000s

Hundreds of thousands of people are crammed into camps around the city of Goma, a crisis triggered by M23 rebels

Treatment consisting of four drugs showed 89% of patients were cured, compared with 52% getting the more complicated tuberculosis treatment

The World Health Organisation has enlisted a team of South African researchers to produce a new mRNA Covid-19 vaccine, but with no recipe to follow, it’s not an easy task

For all the excitement generated by the news of an mRNA vaccine hub being established in South Africa, the country is still going to need help making Covid-19 jabs

Last week, WTO members had another chance to level the playing field by sponsoring the Trips waiver for Covid-19 medical tools. They chose not to

Healthcare workers in the country are quitting because of assaults and inadequate PPE

The coronavirus outbreak has left millions at the mercy of the country’s warring factions, which will not stop fighting, despite an escalating humanitarian emergency

For South Sudanese refugees, fleeing war and sexual violence is only the beginning of their struggles, writes Amanda Sperber from northern Uganda. This story was produced in…

Independent reports slam Cape Town’s Covid-19 homeless site, the city says things have improved since independent monitors visited the site

Despite the long history of medical racism, any potential Covid-19 vaccines must be tested in Africa — but not only on the continent

Europe’s far-right nationalists are closing their borders and using Covid-19 as a guise to deport and deny entry to refugees and asylum seekers

Meet the Central African Republic’s only practising clinical psychologist

It said the new vaccine, produced by a Belgian subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, is aimed at protecting 50 000 people over a period of four months

Home to nearly one million people, Bunia is the latest Congolese city to report an Ebola infection

A shortage of snake antivenom in Africa is a "shameful failure"

Gaza’s health ministry has carried out 94 amputations since protests began in March, 82 of them involving lower limbs

Teaching staff and aid workers fear that children who walk around freely in the village pose a risk far worse than they would pose in a classroom

In ridding the city of the Islamic State, its health system was gutted, affecting 1.8-million residents