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The programme provides a safe space for teenage girls in Makhanda’s townships to discuss and learn about sexual and reproductive health

Girls’ movement calls on traditional isiXhosa practice of entangeni

The programme provides a safe space for teenage girls in Makhanda’s townships to discuss and learn about sexual and reproductive health

In South Africa, one in three women experience depression or anxiety during pregnancy and after the birth of the child. Photo: David Harrison, M&G

Maternal mental health: The missing link in a thriving democracy

Women’s mental health matters not only for the mother but that of their children

Funding cuts will reverse the progress made and weaken health systems.

Africa wins when women’s health is a priority. Here’s why

It is women and girls who will suffer the most from the funding crisis caused by cuts to development aid.

The theme for World Health Day is ‘healthy beginnings, hopeful futures’ and aims to encourage governments to take actions to reduce mothers’ deaths during pregnancy and childbirth.

World health: Progress after Covid — then Trump struck

On World Health Day, let’s not lose sight of hope, of taking action to make sure we create societies in which our children can not only survive but thrive

Activists holding placards chant slogans as they demonstrate against the rising cases of gender based violence in Kenya marking the beginning of this year’s 16 Days of Activism. Kenya is actively participating in the 16 Days of Activism against GBV. (Photo by James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Heroes help turn the tide on gender-based violence in East and Southern Africa

Although these regions still have the highest figures for HIV, violence against women and girls and adolescent pregnancy, progress is being made

The batch was manufactured on 26 April 2023, packaged from 7 to 9 August 2023, and released on 9 and 24 November 2023.

Over 75 000 faulty Yaz Plus packs distributed in southern Africa

Pharmaceutical giant Bayer has launched a recall of the pill after a packaging mix-up compromised its contraceptive efficacy

Suffering: Iman al-Masri, a displaced Palestinian, gave birth to quadruplets in a shelter at a school in the Gaza Strip on 25 December. Photo: Majdi Fathi/Getty Images

The vulnerable experience of childbirth during war

When Hamas attacked Israel from the Gaza Strip on 7 October, I was nine months pregnant … what if I had been there?

Pregnant with meaning: Pontsho Pilane’s memoir Power and Faith: How Evangelical Churches Are Quietly Shaping Our Democracy explores the churches and how their beliefs affect everyday lives. Photo: Stephane de Sakutin/AFP

Should we ‘be fruitful and multiply’?

This edited extract from Power and Faith by Ponthso Pilane explores the issues of religion, pregnancy and abortion