“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
Inhale. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale. Midwife Monali Thulu, 32, guides Sonali Bhoykar, a second-time mother, as she readies to give birth at the midwifery-led care unit (MLCU) of Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital in Maharashtra, India. Beside Sonali and her midwife, Sonali’s husband, a supportive birth companion, holds his wife’s hand and breathes with
Every day 800 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Helena’s story shows us it doesn’t have to be this way.
