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Two out of five cases of TB remain undiagnosed. A test using a skin patch could help change that.

Romantic breakups among emerging adults are often trivialised as a rite of passage. Instead they can lead to acute trauma.

A significant number of older adults in rural South Africa are HIV-positive. Awareness programmes and self-testing would reduce cases.

Africa’s most dangerous snakes not only kill their victims, they can also destroy skin, muscle, and even bone. New drugs could limit these wounds.

The use of medicinal plants in childhood diseases remains largely undocumented. A study in North West province in South Africa catalogued many of these for the first time.

Africa’s investment into research and development is far below the global average.

Some alcoholic drinks in Nigeria encourage rape and other forms of sexual violence against women. The government needs to do more to stop this.

The world’s stockpile of cholera vaccines has run dry, bad news for cholera-ravaged southern Africa. Why is this and what is being done to address vaccine shortages in Africa?

Dispelling myths around breast cancer in Africa is important so that treatment care can focus on the dire socio-economic issues facing patients.

Agincourt, the University of the Witwatersrand’s rural research centre 500km from Johannesburg, has documented the lives of 120,000 people over decades.