Researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand have gathered data from the Diepkloof Forensic Pathology Service in Soweto to better understand why so many women turn to desperate measures instead of seeking legal and safe abortions
Babies getting HIV from their infected mothers is rare in a cluster of 39 villages in the OR Tambo district
A new proposal that aims to get more women to breastfeed says this could cut back the greenhouse gas emissions and get countries that produce the bulk of emissions to pay for it
It is crucial to pay attention to the effects of a warming world on mothers and babies because it stands to affect them the most
Strategic investments in health care for all are needed to ensure safe births, treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, measles, pneumonia and diarrhoea, and children are vaccinated