Maternal Care

Look to perceptions and local context – and not more training for nurses – to cut the mortality rate

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

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

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

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.

Women – many of them mothers – constitute more than half of the population. What should moms think of before casting their vote?

The fertility industry and technology are raising difficult questions about race

Some districts report Caesarean rates of 40%, which is much higher than the 26% national average for public hospitals.

Almost one in four babies born at public hospitals come into the world via c-section but is it costing some women their lives?

Maternal deaths in developing regions would fall by 73% if all women had access to contraception and maternal healthcare, shows new research.

Patients too poor to settle medical debts are chained to drain pipes, starved and abused in health centres across parts of Africa.

Competent, compassionate care during labour and delivery is good for the dignity of mothers-to-be – and for their chance of survival.

Ethiopia’s rural health extension workers have helped halve the country’s child death rate.

Mothers battling depression may need help forming the early crucial bonds that will affect children’s relationships throughout their lives.

Research shows mothers’ milk produces children less likely to be involved in crime.