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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.
Forced abortions: The crime no one is talking about
Nomthandazo* thought her and her partner were happily expecting their first baby together. She was wrong.
The village where men are banned
Inside the Kenyan village that began as a refuge for survivors of sexual violence.
Trump expands global gag rule that blocks US aid for abortion groups
Policy bans aid going to foreign groups that support abortion rights as secretary of state Pompeo says: ‘This is decent and right’
Are foreigners really entitled to free healthcare in South Africa?
Recent national and Gauteng memos demanding all foreign patients pay in full for services likely fell foul of the law.
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.
Investigation reveals shocking conditions at NGOs caring for disabled people
Report unearths neglect in Kenyan institutions, yet discrimination means children may be at risk of being killed if they remain in communities
#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?
Why linking pads to sex may speak volumes about how we stigmatise menstruation
Anna Dahlqvist reflects on a short history of a messy 'problem', or how the world taught you to fear your period.
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.