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Undercover: Bhekisisa reporter Pontsho Pilane posed as a pregnant woman considering an abortion at the Amato Centre in Pretoria to learn about the pregnancy counselling it offers.

Pregnant? Need an abortion? Here’s where not to go

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Ursula Kekana is slowly overcoming her anxiety caused by her heavy menstrual cycle.

#FreeToBleed: ‘A pool of blood gushed down my thighs. My white...

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Inside 'bluetoothing's' fake high

SA needs R4-billion to fight this killer virus you may never...

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An organisation in Mozambique had to close down half of its youth clinics after it lost two-thirds of its funding because it refused to sign onto Trump’s global gag rule policy.

‘Gag Rule will slow down the fight against Aids’

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Lulama Shongwe is a University of Pretoria student. Her usual contraceptive shot has been out of stock for months: “If I cannot get Nur-Isterate on campus

Are strong-armed tactics by Big Pharma behind the country’s birth control...

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Autistic children in Lesotho don't have a school of their own. Most of them

Not a school in sight: Autistic children travel 500 km to...

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From Johannesburg to Mahikeng

Why is this 290-bed North West hospital catering for just 19...

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“[The female officer] was going to teach all the 'prostitutes' a lesson. The male police officers grabbed those ladies so the lady could force the [used] condoms into each lady’s mouth

One in three sex workers surveyed report being sexually abused by...

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When these women fell pregnant

Forced abortions: A new frontier in the war on women’s bodies?

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PrEPing young women for the HIV prevention pill

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Trump’s global ‘gag rule’ may mean increased unintended pregnancies

Loophole could protect South African organisations from US gag rule on...

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Police may have actively targeted those providing medical care to students and the places they provided care in during #FeesMustFall – including the neighbouring Holy Trinity Church.

#WitsHungerStrike: Wits wasn’t prepared during #FeesMustFall. Has anything changed?

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Toeing the line: The children at the Johannesburg Autism School need an organised and constant schedule at school to provide them with a stable

The ABCs of autism in the classroom: ‘He only wants to...

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Should you really be talking to your 10-year-old child about sex?

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A worker pulls donations from a fridge at a breast milk bank. As of May

Five things you didn’t know about human milk banks

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Where are the black experts? The few we have in the health sector are rarely quoted in the media.

Black experts in the health sector: Where are they?

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