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SA’s midwives chart a new course
Scandinavian expertise is helping to train top nurses in how to handle difficult pregnancies.
Kids are having sex. We need to help teen moms, not punish them
Otlotleng Moolikwe fell pregnant after having sex with her boyfriend when she was 13 years old. And she’s not the only one. One in six South African teenagers between 15 and 19 years old have had a child. Here’s how to help them stay in school.
Healthcare heroes heal the system
Clinical associates are changing the medical sector by freeing up doctors to do more.
A changing birth: What’s behind SA’s skyrocketing c-section rates?
Almost one in four babies born at public hospitals come into the world via c-section but is it costing some women their lives?
Truth about cataracts is plain to see: They can be treated
More developing countries are offering sight-saving surgery in their public health systems, but specialist eye surgeons are in short supply.
Malawi drought: “I’m pregnant, but I’ve got nothing to eat.”
Some rain has fallen yet crop yields are still expected to be poor, but aid programmes have opened the door to a more sustainable future.
Let’s talk about sex, baby – help is just an SMS away for young...
Nearly 36 000 young Mozambicans have signed up for SMS-based health counselling but will the new technology curb HIV infections?
SA’s moonlight sonata: The illegal cash cow draining specialist care at state hospitals
Specialist doctors at many state facilities aren’t showing up to work despite earning millions of rands a year in taxpayer money. The consequences for patient health can be devastating but not everyone agrees on the solutions.
Doctors pass the scalpel to nurses in the quest for safer births
A doctor shortage in war-torn Mozambique paved the way for a new breed of surgeons that have slashed deaths among new mothers.In Caia, a...
‘I am the same as them’ – peer educators take sex workers’ health in...
Healthcare facilities are working to ensure migrant workers are never far from care.
How to fund a failing health system
Could Zimbabwe's new Health Development Fund rescue the country's cash-strapped clinics and hospitals?
Virtual reality and SA’s quest for happier nurses
South Africa's public health nurses are infamous for having bad attitudes. Could a pair of goggles help them change their ways?
Abused women in violent spiral
Situations can get worse for women who are battered by their intimate partners: research now shows they are at higher risk of contracting HIV.
“I thought it’s just what fathers do.” How sex ed can tackle child abuse
Thousands of children are abused by someone close to them but are unable to report it, because they’re either too scared or don’t realise they’re being abused. Here’s how training teachers to provide proper sex education can help them.
Seaside towns swallowed by sand: Somalians battle with climate change
Strong winds, trees being cut down and drought drive sand to pile up and swallow the houses of the ancient seaside town Hobyo, Somalia. Will promises to green the desert save families who have been forced to move before?
‘They made me feel like a murderer’: Stigma endangers women seeking legal abortions
Bontle Mabe turned to a loan shark to fund her abortion after she was turned away for five days in a row at her local clinic.