Women and young people don’t need foreign experts to tell them what their communities need; they need resources and support to implement locally developed and relevant solutions
It is women and girls who will suffer the most from the funding crisis caused by cuts to development aid.
The Population and Health Research Entity at the North-West University (NWU) brings together both budding and veteran researchers with a singular mission: to illuminate and…
According to the 2022-23 District Health Barometer, there has been a 6.1% increase in the number of deliveries by girls and women aged 10 to 19, over the past five years
Strategic investments in health care for all are needed to ensure safe births, treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, measles, pneumonia and diarrhoea, and children are vaccinated
Laws on access to sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents and age of consent to sexual activity in many countries do not adequately serve the needs of young…
Almost 70% of the world’s maternal deaths happen in Africa. Now there’s coronavirus — and with poor prenatal and postnatal care on the continent, expectant mothers and children…
Now is the time to examine how reproductive health in South Africa is riddled by inequities based on race and class
Changing household structures, economic growth and contraceptives prompt dramatic drop in fertility rate, study finds
The fertility industry and technology are raising difficult questions about race
Investing in the Future Youth Development Award. Winner: Drama for Life Theatre Company Project
An international drug maker may have intentionally muscled out local competition to win the bulk of a national birth control tender.
Irish health minister Simon Harris says he has faith that Irish citizens will pass the referendum
Maternal deaths in developing regions would fall by 73% if all women had access to contraception and maternal healthcare, shows new research.
"Women are blamed for infertility when, in fact, as we know from research, it is quite often on the man’s side.”
Bhekisisa’s new manual provides handy information on abortion data in South Africa, how procedures work and what the law says.
Everyone’s got an opinion on it but can we say the same about the facts?
Draft guidelines will look to balance a doctor or nurse’s right recuse themselves from performing abortions with a person’s right to choose.
A draft bill is likely to virtually remove women’s access to safe abortions.
Science could be closer to unravelling the riddle of menstruation-related mood disorders
