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African states should prepare their own context-sensitive approaches to public health crises because they bear the major health burdens. (Photo by Dino Lloyd/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
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South Africa Aids gains in danger as it grapples with Covid-19

Sex education will help prevent new HIV infections, expert says

  • Marcia Zali
3 min read
Nomthandazo* thought her and her partner were happily expecting their first baby together. She was wrong.
ABORTIONS

Forced abortions: The crime no one is talking about

Nomthandazo* thought her and her partner were happily expecting their first baby together. She was wrong.

  • Dylan Bush
1 min read
Why this country is thinking outside the box whene it comes to cervical cancer screening and the HPV vaccine. (UNICEF)
CERVICAL CANCER

Shots, myths & cash: The perilous road to curbing cancer

Before 2011, this country couldn’t prevent cervical cancer let alone screen for it. Since then everything’s changed.

  • Bhekisisa Team
  • Sophie Cousins
14 min read
US curtailment of information on, and access to, contraception and abortion care is a human rights violation
BHEKISISA TEAM
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Trump expands global gag rule that blocks US aid for abortion groups

Policy bans aid going to foreign groups that support abortion rights as secretary of state Pompeo says: ‘This is decent and right’

  • Bhekisisa Team
  • Julian Borger
4 min read