Stories written by Nqabomzi Bikitsha

HIV Prevention is Failing Young South African Women

By Nqabomzi Bikitsha
When she found out that she had human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Thabisile Mkhize (not her real name) was scared.

Looking to Africa’s LDCs to Learn How to Save the Lives of Millions of Mothers and their Babies

By Nqabomzi Bikitsha
Every year, three million newborn babies and almost 6.6 million children under five die globally, but if the rest of the world looked towards the examples of two of Africa's least-developed countries (LDCs), Rwanda and Ethiopia, they would perhaps be able to save these children.

Q&A: The Face of the Future is an Adolescent Girl

By Nqabomzi Bikitsha
“The future is today aged 10 and it’s an adolescent girl,” Kate Gilmore, deputy executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), said in an interview with IPS in Johannesburg.


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