Teenage Pregnancies
latest news & developments
Breaking the cycle: Ending childhood pregnancy in South Africa
Early and unintended pregnancies remain a critical challenge in South Africa, significantly impacting the health, education and socioeconomic prospects of girls
Inside Uganda’s controversial ‘pregnancy crisis centres’, where contraception is discouraged
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
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
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?
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.’
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
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
‘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
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
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
‘Various proposals were also discussed to ensure that men also carried the consequences of unintended pregnancies.’
Sugar daddies: Shame the blessers, not the blessed
Her friend still bears the stigma of a schoolgirl affair with a sugar daddy. Pontsho Pilane asks: Why the double standards?
Ugandan sex clinic gets the youth talking
Young people have struggled to access nonjudgmental reproductive healthcare, but the Naguru Teenage Information and Health Centre is changing that.
[From our archives] ‘Once he says he doesn’t want a condom, that’s that’
Gender imbalances in intimate relationships make it difficult for women to decide when, if at all, to have children.
Contraception at schools on Gauteng’s agenda
Gender activists have welcomed talks between two departments about ways to reduce teenage pregnancies, but no decision has yet been taken.