When medical schemes and the law count conceiving as a pre-existing condition, pregnant women lose.
There’s good news and bad news when it comes to PMBs.
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.
Some districts report Caesarean rates of 40%, which is much higher than the 26% national average for public hospitals.
Statistics speak of numbers but they leave stories untold and questions abound
Society must stay out of young women’s decision whether to have babies or not.
A new mother recounts how psychiatric care that nurtured her bond with her baby helped heal her mania.
Nearly 2 million unwanted pregnancies and thousands of deaths would have been prevented had Trump not pulled funding for reproductive health.
In December Williams announced her engagement to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, first sharing the news on the social media site.
A 24-year-old woman tells the Daily Vox’s Mihlali Ntsabo why she fears her family finding out about her pregnancy.
Don’t drop out of school – you have a responsibility to yourself and your child, says a young mother now studying to be a teacher.
Her pregnancy is demonstrated in a way that challenges social stereotypes
Water births are a growing phenomenon in South Africa and globally. But this birth method is controversial – scientific evidence is lacking.
Figure out your odds of falling pregnant via in vitro fertilisation with this new online calculator
‘But what about all the weird stuff that happens to your body? What about those incredibly strong emotions that you just can’t shake?’
The joy of motherhood is killed by a moral and ethical dilemma when doctors advise termination of a pregnancy.
Seemingly safe substances like aspirin could harm your unborn baby.
The right choice of contraceptive is crucial. Science can help you to choose one that’s right for you.
A Nigerian and a Kenyan use social media and the football pitch to discuss contraceptives and stop pregnancy.
Only one out of three married women and sexually active teenage girls on the continent use contraception.
Christian sect leaders in Zimbabwe are slowly coming around to the idea of women giving birth at health clinics, instead of "birth camps".
We’ll deliver your baby but sepsis control is your problem, say the country’s rural clinics.
We’ll deliver your baby but sepsis control is your problem, say the country’s rural clinics.
We need to accept that things can go wrong and there is no place for blame or shame.
Amidst accusations of scaremongering, a Chinese company made a router that they state is safer for pregnant women.
Researchers have identified some of the reasons obese women struggle to conceive, and warn that their babies are likely to become overweight.
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Many women consult traditional healers, so it makes sense to enlist these cultural leaders in public health education.
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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".
Pregnant women have spoken out about nurses forcing them to undergo testing without their informed consent.
The first 1 000 days of our lives are crucial, but when and where should ‘experts’ actually step in?
A health department official has claimed that a third of SA women have a child by 19. The claim is based on data from 1998. Does it hold true?