“My man is circumcised. Encourage yours too.” That’s just one of the phrases plastered on vans and billboards around the small Southern African country of Eswatini urging women to talk to their partners about getting circumcised. Printed alongside photos of young women with their partners or friends, the imperative is part of a Ministry of
At 21 months, Neema is the picture of health, bright-eyed and toddling around her family’s home. She plays hide and seek with her two older sisters and laughs with glee. It’s a relief to her mother, who just three months ago, sat with her very sick daughter in the local hospital, trying to comfort the
Dr. Doris Mbithi, one of just three obstetrician-gynecologist surgeons serving the entirety of Kenya’s Makueni County, was on her way to a morning meeting at the Mother and Child Hospital, the maternity section of the county’s largest referral facility, when she was alerted about an incoming patient. The woman, several weeks post-delivery, was bleeding profusely.
