The lake where locals say it’s easier to catch HIV than fish

Poverty and war divide families and create the perfect conditions for disease to flourish.

Super green me

Alex Jamieson was the woman who helped Morgan Spurlock back to health after he ate nothing but McDonald's. Now she wants to detox the world, finds Hannah Pool.

Partial smoking ban unfair and unworkable, say senior MPs

A group of senior MPs has dismissed the government's plans for a partial smoking ban in public places as 'unfair, unjust, inefficient and unworkable'.

South Africa’s townships battle double trouble

MSF clinics are pioneering new treatments to tackle the deadly link between HIV and TB.

Young lives protected by two small tablets

The antiretroviral drug neviropene is helping to prevent HIV-positive mothers in Africa transmitting the virus to their babies.