Fifty 50 teenage girls and young women from communities with high rates of HIV, early pregnancy and school drop-out rates spoke about what’s stressing them out, and how they are…
Women and young people don’t need foreign experts to tell them what their communities need; they need resources and support to implement locally developed and relevant solutions
It is women and girls who will suffer the most from the funding crisis caused by cuts to development aid.
Adolescent girls and young women are blamed and shamed for falling pregnant, which affects how they are treated, the support they get, and the health services they reive
The Population and Health Research Entity at the North-West University (NWU) brings together both budding and veteran researchers with a singular mission: to illuminate and…
Nearly 365 teenagers give birth in South Africa every day, with 10 of those daily births to mothers younger than 15
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
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…
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…
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.
