SMS service helps nurses help mothers
The NurseConnect text message service can help health workers take better care of mothers.
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Women’s Health
Moms with HIV set to get connected
MomConnect delivers text messages to women, with information geared towards their stage of pregnancy – and soon pregnant women with HIV will be able to receive specialised messages.
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System fails women desperate for safety
Domestic violence survivors rely on shelters to help leave life threatening relationships - and navigate the obstacles of the criminal justice system.
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“You will be remembered comrade”
Aids activist Elsie Simangele Mashego from Daantjie outside Nelspruit in Mpumalanga has died of cervical cancer.
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Mission impossible? Replacing abuse with empathy
Abused in labour, depressed after giving birth – pregnancy can be a nightmare for women. But an inexpensive intervention is trying to change this by teaching care-givers to listen, empathise – and identify depression.
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Making taxis safe for women
Activists have partnered with the taxi industry on a national awareness campaign to address harassment and gender-based violence towards women commuters.
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Invest in teen girls and protect them from violence
South Africa urged to invest in young women and teen girls this World Population Day
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Mpumalanga investigates case of negligence
A woman in labour asked medical staff to help her, but was allegedly told she was in false labour.
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Placing pleasure at the heart of safe sex
There’s a new sex toy in town – an erotic accessory that increases sexual pleasure and keeps you safe. Because it’s such a potent weapon in combatting HIV the government is distributing them to all corners of the country. Now they just have to persuade young people to use them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Blood on the floor: Women’s deaths a ‘national emergency’
Hundreds of women each year die following caesarean deliveries. With rates of caesarean deliveries climbing, the stage may be set for more deaths to come.
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Report: Saving Mothers 2011 – 2013
This 91-page condensed version of South Africa’s latest maternal death audit shows that although maternal deaths are decreasing, worrying trends in the deaths of new and expecting moms persist.
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