Community involvement is essential in preventing teenage pregnancies. Parents, guardians, and community leaders must be engaged in discussions about reproductive health, sexuality education, and the importance of education for girls.
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‘Lives have been lost’: Women forced to pay bribes when giving birth

IN agonising labour pain and turned away from a Harare health centre, Aurage Katume feared that, like many other Zimbabwean women, she could lose her unborn baby. She struggled to another clinic in the country’s capital. The midwives there were not ready to help her either. “What did you bring us?” one of them said,…

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