Despite KwaZulu-Natal’s relatively good access to contraception, uptake of birth control methods remains a challenge. The province’s 12-page strategy aims to increase awareness and uptake of contraception services, especially among young women.
The 41-page strategic framework focuses on five priority areas including the evidence-based revision of current policy and improved sexual and reproductive health and rights knowledge among adolescents and their caregivers.
Gauteng businesswoman Mulalo Simeti grew up in rural Limpopo. When she recently read that her old primary school was in danger of collapsing and burying learners alive, she knew she had to do something.
This year’s guidelines mark the fourth revision in the maternity guidelines for clinics and district hospitals.
Women in Orange Farm south of Johannesburg say they were recently told to buy their own prenatal vitamins after the local clinic ran short of pills.
From picking the dress to negotiating curfew, a lot goes into the perfect matric dance but some teens may be taking dangerous risks in an effort to look "their best" for the big night.
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital has charted another first for Africa as the hospital welcomes a new state-of-the-art machine that will allow women to be treated for fibroids without surgery. The machine has been billed as the first of its kind in Africa.
This 18-page document outlines South African strategies to reduce maternal and child deaths in the country as part of the African Union’s Campaign for the Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA).
This 46-page document aims to guide the implementation of health promotion programmes in South Africa.
News child mortality data shows East and southern Africa are making the fastest progress on reducing child deaths - and this bodes well as the world ushers in new development goals, write UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern and southern Africa Leila Gharagozloo-Pakkala and Save the Children East Africa Director David Wright.
In South Africa, all uninsured pregnant and breastfeeding women and children under six are entitled to free health care. But amid confusing provinicial policies, some health care workers may have unwittingly become a law unto themselves with dire consequence for immigrants and their children.
As Women's Month winds to an end, Rape Crisis gives advice for rape survivors.
Nurse Precious Mashupi has gone from consulting at her local clinic to running her own business in a bid that she hopes will help increase access to women’s health services in Klerksdorp.
This Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust booklet provides information for rape survivors including how to report a rape, what to do medically after an assault and how to report poor treatment by the police.
After years of mental distress from trying to deny her sexuality and hide it from her family, Noxolo Nxumalo has accepted that she loves women.
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