The unmet need for contraceptives in Africa and why it needs to be addressed
Picture: Geoffroy Van der Hasselt/AFP – While there are many contraception products available across the world, access to any or all of them might prove
Turner is a health and environmental multimedia journalist
Picture: Geoffroy Van der Hasselt/AFP – While there are many contraception products available across the world, access to any or all of them might prove
Picture: Ted S Warren/AP – A patient receives a shot in the first-stage study of a potential vaccine for Covid-19, in March 20, 2020. Researchers
Picture: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Files – Ex-female genital mutilation (FGM) cutter Monika Cheptilak, shows a homemade tool from a nail used for FGM. Close to 140 million
Picture: Jarius Mmutle/GCIS- President Cyril Ramaphosa receives a Covid-19 booster shot. Two and a half years into the pandemic, one would be hard-pressed to find
Picture: Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters – Four-year-old Avoraza from Madagascar at a malnutrition post run by the World Food Programme. He was brought by his mother to
Social media has unofficially nicknamed the Omicron BA.2.75 subvariant as ‘Centaurus’. Picture: Idrees Mohammed / EPA-EFE – An Indian health worker collects a Covid-19 swab
Picture: Timothy Bernard/African News Agency(ANA) By Kelly-Jane Turner THE world is two and a half years into the Covid-19 pandemic that continues to underline global
By Kelly-Jane Turner I began writing this during loadshedding, with my laptop battery at 35 percent and using my phone (with depleting data) as a
Fresh in our memory is the April and May flooding across parts of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape. We witnessed entire buildings, homes and schools
One of the eagerly awaited announcements by the government took place last week – the scrapping of face masks and suspension of several lockdown restrictions.
Picture: Geoffroy Van der Hasselt/AFP – While there are many contraception products available across the world, access to any or all of them might prove
Picture: Ted S Warren/AP – A patient receives a shot in the first-stage study of a potential vaccine for Covid-19, in March 20, 2020. Researchers
Picture: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Files – Ex-female genital mutilation (FGM) cutter Monika Cheptilak, shows a homemade tool from a nail used for FGM. Close to 140 million
Picture: Jarius Mmutle/GCIS- President Cyril Ramaphosa receives a Covid-19 booster shot. Two and a half years into the pandemic, one would be hard-pressed to find
Picture: Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters – Four-year-old Avoraza from Madagascar at a malnutrition post run by the World Food Programme. He was brought by his mother to
Social media has unofficially nicknamed the Omicron BA.2.75 subvariant as ‘Centaurus’. Picture: Idrees Mohammed / EPA-EFE – An Indian health worker collects a Covid-19 swab
Picture: Timothy Bernard/African News Agency(ANA) By Kelly-Jane Turner THE world is two and a half years into the Covid-19 pandemic that continues to underline global
By Kelly-Jane Turner I began writing this during loadshedding, with my laptop battery at 35 percent and using my phone (with depleting data) as a
Fresh in our memory is the April and May flooding across parts of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape. We witnessed entire buildings, homes and schools
One of the eagerly awaited announcements by the government took place last week – the scrapping of face masks and suspension of several lockdown restrictions.
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