Health

Doctors and patients are fighting back against new rules to restrict migrants’ access to the NHS, writes Simon Childs.

Revealing Malawi's untold health and environmental crisis. Ingrid Gercama and Nathalie Bertrams for New Internationalist.

A sole story by Sucheta Das.

Roxana Olivera meets indigenous women in Peru who are still waiting for justice, two decades after being forcibly sterilized.

Serah Tomba went from being a student to sole carer of seven orphans.

Elizabeth Katta talks about the lingering impacts of teenage pregnancy, which spiked during Ebola.

Gangsters turned mobilizers, the Tripoli Boys kicked Ebola out of their neighbourhood. Amjata Bayoh and Mohamed S Camara find out what happened next.

Bankolay Turay’s story of student romance on ice.

Mamie Lebbi, the first woman to test positive for Ebola, describes how she survived in the bush with her husband’s help.

Mariama B Jalloh’s quest to find her father’s grave.

Statistics and more on the spread of the virus through West Africa.

And will Sierra Leone be ready, should the virus return? Hazel Healy travelled there to find out.

Simon Trace on the skewed priorities of medical research.

Good news stories this month.

Escaping the pressures of modern life in Japan. By Tina Burrett and Christopher Simons.

A sudden change in an employee's health reveals hidden hardship to Ruby Diamonde.

Rebecca Cooke explains how grandmothers are stepping up.

Workers in in Central America face an epidemic of a chronic kidney disease, new research reveals.

Emma Rose explains why animals should not be given so many antibiotics.

Chris Brazier takes a look back at what we were writing about 20 years ago.