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Experts say confusion over the rights of local healthcare workers to provide the service while receiving US funds only benefits Trump administration.

How we found the country's 'missing' abortion providers – and mapped contraception services too.

A draft bill is likely to virtually remove women’s access to safe abortions.

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Find out when you can terminate a pregnancy and who should be doing it.

In some provinces, safe, free abortions may only be provided at about 260 public facilities.

Nearly 90% of terminations of pregnancies are performed in developing countries such as South Africa and Nigeria.

Unsafe terminations in Malawi may be curbed after a new law is enacted, but it’s just the first step

Conscientious objectors who refuse to perform abortions or related services for moral reasons may have become a law unto themselves.

A number of fallacious assumptions undermine the effectiveness of measures to prevent or terminate a pregnancy, writes Catriona Macleod.

The World Health Organisation estimates that one in five pregnancies globally end in induced abortion.

Personal beliefs sometimes collide with healthcare providers’ professional responsibilities.

Obstetrician Eddie Mhlanga often had to attend to women who had unsafe abortions during apartheid, when abortion was illegal in South Africa.

Community healthcare workers have become what some have called our “heroes on the ground” during COVID-19. By keeping more people healthier...

Planning for the pandemic has to include sexual and reproductive health services. If not, we risk saving women from the new...

'I was recently contacted by a young woman who was being hunted by a mob that suspected her of abandoning a...