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Teenage Pregnancies

South Africa’s teen moms are on their own

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State health facilities and the school curriculum have failed the youth, forcing young mothers into unsupported single parenthood
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No easy childhood for SA’s youth

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Being a child in South Africa is difficult, but there are programmes that help them to survive and thrive
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This is putting SA’s women in the grave, so what’s health department doing about it?

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Pregnancy in South Africa is getting safer, but still not safe enough. Here’s what the health department says they’re doing about it.
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‘I didn’t think it was necessary to use condoms because I was only 15.’

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This province reported skyrocketing rates of teen pregnancy but behind the figures lies a story about sex, knowledge and data.
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Tackling HIV among young women needs specific interventions

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We need to take measures that will address gender violence, inequality and patriarchy
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In denial of reality, we stuff our eye sockets and ears with toilet paper

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'Years of incompetent government in the service of irresponsible oligarchs has left the country in ruins,' writes Mathew Blatchford
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‘After getting pregnant, you are done’: no more school for mums-to-be

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This country's president just told public schools to kick out teen mothers, tens of thousands of whom have already lost out on education.
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Youth avoid sexual healthcare

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Health services are available but the attitudes of medical staff deter young people
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Helen Zille’s words were taken out of context and used in a straw-man argument

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'Various proposals were also discussed to ensure that men also carried the consequences of unintended pregnancies.'
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Sugar daddies: Shame the blessers, not the blessed

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Her friend still bears the stigma of a schoolgirl affair with a sugar daddy. Pontsho Pilane asks: Why the double standards?
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[From our archives] ‘Once he says he doesn’t want a condom, that’s that’

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Gender imbalances in intimate relationships make it difficult for women to decide when, if at all, to have children.
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Contraception at schools on Gauteng’s agenda

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Gender activists have welcomed talks between two departments about ways to reduce teenage pregnancies, but no decision has yet been taken.
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