World

Redefining baby showers in the age of emigration

By Sulette Ferreira

Maverick Citizen

Five steps, fast: This plastic sheet and pouch can stop thousands of women from dying after giving birth 

By Zano Kunene

Maverick Citizen

Five ways to improve domestic workers’ maternity protection

By Catherine Pereira-Kotze

South Africa

Obstetric violence must be reframed as human rights violation in Africa — former UN Special Rapporteur 

By Naledi Sikhakhane

South Africa

Obstetric violence and the cruel culture of collusion that devastates young doctors

By Regan Boden 

Maverick Life

Reading while pregnant

By Yewande Omotoso

World

People still have sex during disease outbreaks. Here’s why governments would do well to remember that

By Matshidiso Moeti and Julitta Onabanjo

South Africa

Health-E News: When a parent’s ‘bundle of joy’ becomes a mental struggle

By Health-e News

Newsdeck

Group-B strep blamed for nearly 150,000 stillbirths, baby deaths

By AFP

South Africa

Health-E: When a child gives birth, who failed her?

By Health-e News

Africa

Maternal mortality in Mozambique: ‘Who wants to give birth here?’

By Mercedes Sayagues

Africa

Insufficient evidence to support health claims associated with eating placenta

By Africa Check