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Healthworkers are quickly transporting medical results and treatment by motorbike, helping save lives in rural Lesotho. In the past people could wait up to two or three months for HIV and TB...

Riders for Health is training health workers to ride motorbikes in Lesotho to be able to reach patients in remote and rural areas. Isaac Monokwa found it extremely difficult, falling off many times...

Riders for Health is training health workers to ride motorbikes in Lesotho to be able to reach patients in remote and rural areas. Isaac Monokwa found it extremely difficult, falling off many times...

Mothers used to have to walk three hours to get their children vaccinated in rural Lesotho. Now nurse Thabiso Phoka reaches them by motorbike but he still has to leave his bike at...

Mothers used to have to walk three hours to get their children vaccinated in rural Lesotho. Now nurse Thabiso Phoka reaches them by motorbike but he still has to leave his bike at...

Doctors at Hammersmith Hospital in London are testing a new treatment for heart failure - numbing nerves around the kidney which cause abnormal hormone levels with electricity and radio waves pulsed through...

It currently takes between 2-6 months to make an accurate diagnosis for TB and the longer the patient has to wait the more people can be infected. American scientists have developed a molecular...

Over 5,000 people have died of cholera in Haiti and half a million have fallen ill. A cholera treatment centre with 25 beds is bulging at the seams with patients being forced...

Giving birth in Haiti is risky. It has the highest maternal death rate in the western hemisphere and only a quarter of births are supervised by skilled medics. A new maternity hospital...

‘Hot Cities’, our 8 x 1-hr series on living with climate-change has begun transmission on the BBC. For many of the world’s cites climate change is real.  They are already paying the...