A bunch of flowers on Mother’s Day expresses gratitude but mothers need more – recognise all their work, listen to them, include them in decision-making
When a river and several hours of dirt roads stand between you & the nearest hospital, giving birth can be deadly. One nurse is hoping to change that.
Mali joins the ranks of countries such as Sierra Leone, South Africa & Burkina Faso to provide free healthcare to moms and tots.
Pregnancy in South Africa is getting safer, but still not safe enough. Here’s what the health department says they’re doing about it.
What if your doctor couldn’t even wash her hands before examining you?
The struggle to survive pregnancy and death in a land of plenty and poverty hasn’t changed much in the past five years — there are lives to prove it.
Almost one in four babies born at public hospitals come into the world via c-section but is it costing some women their lives?
A week. That’s how long most newborns who die will make it in South Africa. But there may be hope yet for the country’s tiniest patients
When bringing a new life into the world risks taking another, even old traditions have to adopt new ways.
But will the country be able to half its maternal mortality ratio by 2030 – in time to achieve its sustainable development goal?
Competent, compassionate care during labour and delivery is good for the dignity of mothers-to-be – and for their chance of survival.
Girls who are forced into early marriage are abused and denied access to contraception.
Solar power, solar electricity and mobile technology are helping to reduce the rate of maternal mortality in Cameroon.
The case has already contributed to improved jurisprudence on socioeconomic rights in Uganda
Leaders of Zimbabwe’s Apostolic sects are warming to the idea of women giving birth at health clinics.
The new law specifies that abortions will have to be carried out in recognised and designated health centres by qualified practitioners.
Twenty years after the genocide, Rwanda’s health system is showing drastic improvements.
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/ 29 October 2014
More women are having C-section births in SA, but authors of the 2013/2014 District Health Barometer warn that this increase is "a matter of concern".
Despite increased efforts to improve child and maternal health, countries are still lagging behind in meeting their Millennium Development Goals.
Along with better access to health services and reducing child marriage, education can save many lives.
NGOs use maternal deaths to illustrate the dire state of Mpumalanga hospitals.
The KwaZulu-Natal health department says new measures have been put in place to tackle the high maternal and child mortality rate in the province.
Our children’s lives were lost due to the negligence of the Mpumalanga health system, say grieving mothers.
Unless the state’s plan to curb maternal deaths is wholly implemented, it won’t make a dent.
South Africa’s maternal mortality rate leaves the elderly to deal with its consequences, with many unable to keep up.
Having a baby in sub-Saharan Africa is riskier than anywhere else according to the latest State of the World’s Mothers report.
Comment: May 5 is International Midwife Day: a day to acknowledge the vital impact midwives have on maternal health in South Africa.
Access to ARVs is improving, but poor attitudes to patients are aggravating maternal mortality rates.
Partnerships in higher education are advancing the fight against maternal deaths in Africa.
South Africa is one of a handful of countries that have done little to reduce maternal deaths, writes <b>Mia Malan</b>.
This is Dolly Gule’s story. On August 24 2004 her youngest daughter, Tshepang, was admitted to Durban’s King Edward VIII Hospital.