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Jury still out on pregnant women getting a Covid jab

Few trials have been carried out on women expecting babies

Department needs to clarify policies so non-South African pregnant women, and children under six, can access the care guaranteed under the National Health Act. (Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images)

Covid-19 puts Sierra Leone’s expectant mothers at further risk

Almost 70% of the world’s maternal deaths happen in Africa. Now there’s coronavirus — and with poor prenatal and postnatal care on the continent, expectant mothers and children…

Meet the silent but dangerous pollutant on our block: E-waste

The rise of the IT age means hazardous materials from electronic devices are being released into the environment at an increasing rate.

Bhekisisa reporter Ina Skosana speaks on M&G Newsroom about the shocking story of the Mpumalanga hospital where mothers go to die.

Mothers haunted by hospital hell

Our children’s lives were lost due to the negligence of the Mpumalanga health system, say grieving mothers.

Crack down: Poor implementation of the health department’s policy on foreigners’ rights to healthcare results in the neglect of many emergencies, doctors say, particularly in obstetrics. (Delwyn Verasamy)

Foreign mom’s neglect turns fatal

Nurses and doctors are ‘forced’ to treat non-residents, but such care is too often perilous.

ARVs alone won’t save HIV infected mothers

Access to ARVs is improving, but poor attitudes to patients are aggravating maternal mortality rates.

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the SANDF deployment in his 12 February State of the Nation Address.

Pregnant SANDF women humiliated at Oudtshoorn military base

Women at the South African Infantry School in Oudtshoorn have been ‘heavily’ reprimanded for being pregnant, says military trade union Sandu.

Mothers-to-be warned not to eat for two

Women should lose all their baby weight before getting pregnant again or face an increased risk of complications.