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More than 20 million young women are not accessing contraception globally, resulting in about 10 million unintended pregnancies each year, according to a new report by US reproductive health and rights organisation Guttmacher Institute.
Cape town-based company Aviro has created a free, mobile app designed to help South African health workers manage HIV.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will invest about R1.2 billion in the next three years to enable countries to count women and girls, and generate crucial data on hundreds of thousands of women around the world.
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There’s a dire shortage of medical specialists, yet provinces have cut budgets for their training. Specialists need to be involved in planning the NHI roll-out to prevent such things from happening, writes South African Society of Anaesthesiologists CEO Natalie Zimmelman.
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More than a million South Africans are born into the world each year and a new report released today shows that the inequity they are born into begins to shape them from a young age.
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Meet the Soweto fitness instructor who says it does not have to cost a cent to stay fit.
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South Africa has committed itself to reaching the world’s latest batch of ambitious targets, but it will not meet them without sex workers, writes Ntokozo Yingwana.
Millions of South Africans live with serious illness and when the pain becomes too much, many turn to hospice.