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COVID, skin contact & kangaroos: How SA’s hospital rules are adapting

Jeannette Wessels and Ute Feucht - 0

The preventable trauma of COVID childbirth

Mary Fitzgerald - 0
A pregnant woman sits on a hospital bed.

Headaches, heartaches & pregnancy: Could this stem preeclampsia’s deadly tide?

Gideon Yeboah - 0

Waiting game: Why a home away from home for pregnant women...

Marko Phiri - 0
In Sierra Leone’s island-bound district of Bonthe

This is what it’s like to give birth in the world’s...

Emanuela Zuccalà - 0
A child at a clinic in Bamako. The country’s child mortality rate is among the highest in the world.

This president is putting his money where his mouth is when...

and Kate Hodal - 0
The health department has proposed accrediting public hospitals to provide c-sections as a way of improving the safety of the procedures across the country.

This is putting SA’s women in the grave, so what’s the...

Yogan Pillay - 0
It’s 2019 and some clinics and hospitals in this country are still battling for basic hygiene.

Only half of clinics and hospitals in this country meet basic...

Mercy Masoo - 0
The struggle to survive bringing a new life into the world is still so real for South African women.

‘HIV testing was compulsory. If you didn’t test, they wouldn’t treat...

Shenilla Mohamed - 0
A mother delivers via C-section in Mozambique. In South Africa

A changing birth: What’s behind SA’s skyrocketing c-section rates?

Laura Grant and Laura Lopez Gonzalez - 0
More than 80 countries around the world have used a simple training programme to help nurses and doctors prevent more infant deaths. Could it work in SA?

Thousands of babies die each year in SA. This could help...

Laura Lopez Gonzalez and Pontsho Pilane - 0
Nigeria’s maternal mortality is high. But if mothers such as Oluwakemi Junaid won’t go to hospital

Old birth rites, new ways

Festus Iyorah and Adri Kotze - 0
Fewer pregnant women in South Africa die during pregnancy and giving birth or soon thereafter compared with 2009 – but the country’s maternal mortality ratio needs to be cut in half by 2030 if it wants to meet United Nations goals.

Giving birth has become less dangerous in South Africa

Pontsho Pilane and Mia Malan - 0
The Finnish baby box was introduced in the 1930s when the country was poor

Would you put your baby in a cardboard box? Check out...

Adri Kotze - 0

Doctors pass the scalpel to nurses in the quest for safer...

Sara Assarson - 0
A bicycle ambulance arrives at Trinity Hospital in southern Malawi

Pedal power: Malawi’s ‘rickshaw’ bush ambulances cycle the sick to care

Ina Skosana - 0
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