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Small cost for women’s freedom to choose

Access to contraception Is essential for gender equality, both to ensure that women don’t become mothers unless they want to and to prevent abortions.

Register for MSF’s Scientific Day

Scientific innovation can save lives. Join us and Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) for South Africa’s first MSF Scientific Day.

Traditional leaders turn treatment supporters

Communities surrounding Port St. Johns recently gathered at the house of a local headman to celebrate patients preserving with chronic illness.

Africa Health – Africa’s largest healthcare exhibition

Health-e News is proud to be an official media partner of Africa Health running from 8 to 10 June 2016 at Johannesburg’s Gallagher Convention Centre.

Quarter of pregnancies globally may end in abortion

Almost 90 percent of abortions occur in the developing world, pointing to an unmet need for contraception among the bulk of the world’s women, finds a new report.

Patient incorrectly prescribed HIV medication

When epileptic patient Thabang Madimabi collapsed, he never expected to wake up in hospital and on antiretrovirals (ARVs) – especially since Madimabi is HIV negative.
Youth struggle to access reproductive care

R9 billion needed to close contraception gap

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.

App: HIV Clinical Mentor

Cape town-based company Aviro has created a free, mobile app designed to help South African health workers manage HIV.

Gates Foundation to invest R1.2b to close data gap

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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