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READ: Mkhize’s speech on the National Health Insurance & women
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize spoke at an exclusive Bhekisisa event for editors on 6 August about the National Health Insurance and what it means for reproductive justice.
What’s in a pill? Promise, uncertainty, rands, lives & loves … but rights? What...
South Africa will roll out dolutegravir in September, Scientists still don't know if it leads to birth defects but it does know only a woman can choose how much risk is too much.
The WHO, the drug & women’s right to choose: The story behind dolutegravir
Take a look at the newest HIV treatment set to hit South Africa's shores in 2019.
It’s official: Bhekisisa is going solo
Today, we set out on our own after calling the Mail & Guardian home for more than half a decade.
Doctor smartphone and other tales from the bedroom
From how to spice up your sex life to the more mundane, “does this look weird to you”, there are some questions you just don’t want to ask your friends and family. Relax. Now, there’s an app for that.
The village where men are banned
Inside the Kenyan village that began as a refuge for survivors of sexual violence.
This popular birth control shot is out of stock for the second year running....
Women who have been forced to go without their usual birth control shot are now facing the consequences of months-long shortages.
Inside the illegal abortion market: ‘I nearly touched hell’
Zimbabwe’s tight abortion laws aren’t curbing demand, they’re driving them underground — and it’s about to get worse.
‘HIV testing was compulsory. If you didn’t test, they wouldn’t treat you’
The struggle to survive pregnancy and death in a land of plenty and poverty hasn’t changed much in the past five years — there are lives to prove it.
#SliceOfLife: ‘I opened her up and found her womb was rotten from the infection’
Obstetrician Eddie Mhlanga often had to attend to women who had unsafe abortions during apartheid, when abortion was illegal in South Africa.
Pregnant? Need an abortion? Here’s where not to go
Are faith-based NGOs breaking the law when they refuse to give women information on where to terminate their pregnancies?
How readers like you are helping flip the script on illegal abortion providers
We teamed up with readers and translators to create some of the first graphics ever on abortion in all South Africa's official languages.
‘Gag Rule will slow down the fight against Aids’
The damage caused by the controversial US policy will only start showing when it’s too late to reverse it, activists and researchers argue.
Tales from Trumpland: Health workers will be forced to bury aborted fetal tissue
In the war on women's bodies, the casualties stretch far beyond US' 50 states.
Unconscionable: Health workers’ right to refuse abortions vs women’s right to choose
When religion trumps science in medicine, women's bodies and Constitutional rights may be caught in the crossfire.
Old birth rites, new ways
When bringing a new life into the world risks taking another, even old traditions have to adopt new ways.