According to the 2022-23 District Health Barometer, there has been a 6.1% increase in the number of deliveries by girls and women aged 10 to 19, over the past five years
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Abortion is legal in South Africa. But bad treatment, stigma, a lack of privacy and long waiting periods for abortions at government clinics can drive people to illegal providers
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
It is difficult for startups to get off the ground, especially when they are women-focused
Pandemic disrupts the supply of external condoms — and inner ones are unknown and in short supply
Laws on access to sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents and age of consent to sexual activity in many countries do not adequately serve the needs of young people and even when they are progressive, they are often not well implemented
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 under five are even more vulnerable.
Now is the time to examine how reproductive health in South Africa is riddled by inequities based on race and class
Changing household structures, economic growth and contraceptives prompt dramatic drop in fertility rate, study finds
The fertility industry and technology are raising difficult questions about race
Investing in the Future Youth Development Award. Winner: Drama for Life Theatre Company Project
An international drug maker may have intentionally muscled out local competition to win the bulk of a national birth control tender.
Irish health minister Simon Harris says he has faith that Irish citizens will pass the referendum
Maternal deaths in developing regions would fall by 73% if all women had access to contraception and maternal healthcare, shows new research.
"Women are blamed for infertility when, in fact, as we know from research, it is quite often on the man’s side.”
Bhekisisa’s new manual provides handy information on abortion data in South Africa, how procedures work and what the law says.
Bhekisisa’s new manual provides handy information on abortion data in South Africa, how procedures work and what the law says.
Everyone’s got an opinion on it but can we say the same about the facts?
What’s left unspoken: If you expect your healthcare provider to lay out your birth control options, you may be in for a long wait
Draft guidelines will look to balance a doctor or nurse’s right recuse themselves from performing abortions with a person’s right to choose.
A draft bill is likely to virtually remove women’s access to safe abortions.
Left with little choice, many women turn to illegal abortionists to terminate their pregnancies.
Science could be closer to unravelling the riddle of menstruation-related mood disorders
Campaigners warn the reinstatement of a policy cutting aid to organisations that offer abortion services will devastate family planning.
We speak to a young, black woman who is infertile about the stigma she faces in her community.
Could do-it-yourself birth control injections take off in South Africa?
Figure out your odds of falling pregnant via in vitro fertilisation with this new online calculator
Unsafe terminations in Malawi may be curbed after a new law is enacted, but it’s just the first step
Young people have struggled to access nonjudgmental reproductive healthcare, but the Naguru Teenage Information and Health Centre is changing that.
Health experts are at loggerheads over research that raises questions about the possible link between the contraceptive injection and HIV.
The stigmatisation of abortion continues, also at the highest levels of government. Plus, illegal abortion providers have proliferated.
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/ 26 November 2010
The disproportionate burden of HIV/Aids borne by women and girls in most developing countries requires urgent attention. At the heart of the problem is profound gender inequality and inequity, coupled with the systematic disempowerment of women, condoned by society for generations. Although a global problem, it is particularly evident in developing countries and the HIV/Aids […]