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Education and contraception

Self-determined life for women

Societal norms and lack of equality stand in the way of modern family planning and contraception

Women's health

Dangerous for mothers and babies

Women who have been subjected to female genital mutilation often have severe complications during childbirth

Teenager pregnancies

Devastating consequences

In Uganda, teenage pregnancies are causing lots of suffering

Editorial

Unfinished business

There needs to be societal change to prevent unwanted pregnancies and promote female equality

Sex education

Who wants to educate a goat?

Why Ugandan teenagers need reliable information concerning sex and reproductive he

Maternal mortality

New legal guidelines

The difficult birth of a law to improve the situation of traditional midwives in Guatemala

Maternal mortality

Midwifery is part of the culture

The risk of motherhood – and how traditional birth attendants can help

Maternal mortality

More efforts needed

Hundreds of thousands of women are still dying during pregnancy or childbirth

Abortion

Public disclosure

Salvadoran celebrity’s personal story ignites debate over decriminalisation of abortion

Women’s health

Avoidable surgical interventions

India has too many unsafe abortions – and too many Caesarean sections

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