Teenage Pregnancies

Inside Uganda’s controversial ‘pregnancy crisis centres’, where contraception is discouraged

Africa Khatondi Soita Wepukhulu & Lydia Namubiru - 24 Feb 2020

Undercover investigation shows that controversial US-linked centres are defying government policy and providing inaccurate medical information

South Africa’s teen moms are on their own

Article Tebadi Mmotla - 9 Feb 2020

State health facilities and the school curriculum have failed the youth, forcing young mothers into unsupported single parenthood

No easy childhood for SA’s youth

Article Athandiwe Saba - 6 Jun 2019

Being a child in South Africa is difficult, but there are programmes that help them to survive and thrive

This is putting SA’s women in the grave, so what’s health department doing about it?

Article Yogan Pillay - 12 Feb 2019

Pregnancy in South Africa is getting safer, but still not safe enough. Here’s what the health department says they’re doing about it.

‘I didn’t think it was necessary to use condoms because I was only 15.’

Article Joan Van Dyk - 14 Dec 2018

This province reported skyrocketing rates of teen pregnancy but behind the figures lies a story about sex, knowledge and data.

Tackling HIV among young women needs specific interventions

Article Staff Reporter - 30 Nov 2018

We need to take measures that will address gender violence, inequality and patriarchy

In denial of reality, we stuff our eye sockets and ears with toilet paper

Article Mathew Blatchford - 14 Sep 2018

'Years of incompetent government in the service of irresponsible oligarchs has left the country in ruins,' writes Mathew Blatchford

‘After getting pregnant, you are done’: no more school for mums-to-be

Article Rebecca Ratcliffe - 14 Jul 2017

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

Youth avoid sexual healthcare

Analysis bogdan TagDiv - 7 Apr 2017

Health services are available but the attitudes of medical staff deter young people

Helen Zille’s words were taken out of context and used in a straw-man argument

Article Staff Reporter - 19 Aug 2016

'Various proposals were also discussed to ensure that men also carried the consequences of unintended pregnancies.'

Sugar daddies: Shame the blessers, not the blessed

Article bogdan TagDiv - 19 May 2016

Her friend still bears the stigma of a schoolgirl affair with a sugar daddy. Pontsho Pilane asks: Why the double standards?

[From our archives] ‘Once he says he doesn’t want a condom, that’s that’

Article bogdan TagDiv - 27 May 2015

Gender imbalances in intimate relationships make it difficult for women to decide when, if at all, to have children.

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