‘It’s a human right’: the campaign for learning disabled people’s love lives

Campaigners want care staff to support people to develop relationships and enrich their intimate and emotional lives

Ex-ballerina Deborah Bull: ‘I’ve found great strength in dancing and singing’

The former Royal Ballet principal on her leading role in a major study into how the arts can boost physical and mental health

How street teams and vending machines are helping to eradicate HIV

Easier access to HIV tests and better medical treatment has led to a sharp fall in infections. But stigma is still a problem, says Nicola Slawson

Making my own clothes transformed my body image – and my life

As a teenager, the styles I liked never came in my size. So discovering that I could sew my own was profoundly freeing – and led me to help curvy women all over the world

Five ways to deal with head lice and nits

Parents dread discovering an infestation of the itchy menaces, but with the right approach you can stop them in their tracks

About 12,000 fake STI kits seized in past four years, figures show

Counterfeit devices can show negative results when person has an infection

Soap opera could be unlikely form of birth control in Uganda

An NGO has recut and overdubbed a Venezuelan telenovela to raise awareness of sexual health

DIY drugs: should hospitals make their own medicine?

The long read: If pharmaceutical companies rapidly inflate the price of their products, is there an alternative? One Dutch chemist thinks so

Share your experiences of pregnancy and giving birth while in prison

Whether you or someone you know has been pregnant or given birth behind bars, we would like to hear from you

My tears as a junior doctor were a ‘flaw’ that, in psychiatry, became my greatest strength

I burnt out as a GP but in mental health I could take time with patients and, at last, make a difference