Pregnancy

Slice of Life: Little feet changed my life

Article Athandiwe Saba - 13 Dec 2019

"When I became pregnant four years ago I just could not believe it. I was somewhat fearful of what people would say and how they would look at me."

Boy or girl? US parents go too far in gender reveals

Article Sebastien Duval - 20 Nov 2019

American parents are no longer satisfied with traditional gender reveal methods

Headaches, heartaches and pregnancy: Could this stem preeclampsia’s deadly tide?

Article Bhekisisa Team Author - 6 Nov 2019

This silent killer stalks expecting mothers around the world and is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in South Africa

Yes, edit our genes – but do it cautiously

Article Sheetal Soni - 27 Sep 2019

We can now control our species genetic future but this power is ‘awesome and terrifying’

Bringing home baby when your bae is HIV-positive and you’re not

Article Nelisiwe Msomi - 21 Aug 2019

Sperm washing, assisted insemination and long hospital waits — if you were lucky. This is what pregnancy when you were HIV-positive used to look like

Proposed New Zealand abortion law to give women right to choose

Article Agency - 5 Aug 2019

The government plans to overhaul the country's current abortion laws

Pregnant? Not on medical aid? You might be footing the bill to bring home baby

Article Bhekisisa Team - 29 May 2019

Women may be paying the price for decades’ old concessions to the medical aid industry.

Why Discovery Health didn’t pay up

Article Bhekisisa Team - 17 May 2019

Would you join a medical aid if you were perfectly healthy? Most won’t. That’s why we need waiting periods, says Discovery CEO Jonathan Broomberg.

Why medical aids are putting the price of a safe delivery on some women’s pockets

Article Fatima Hassan & Bhekisisa Team - 17 May 2019

When medical schemes and the law count conceiving as a pre-existing condition, pregnant women lose.

Are the medical aids really fleecing you?

Article Laura Lopez Gonzalez & Bhekisisa Team - 17 May 2019

There's good news and bad news when it comes to PMBs.

Only half of clinics and hospitals in this country meet basic hygiene standards

Article Staff Reporter - 30 Jan 2019

What if your doctor couldn’t even wash her hands before examining you?

‘HIV testing was compulsory. If you didn’t test, they wouldn’t treat you’

Article Staff Reporter - 28 Jan 2019

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.

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