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Emergency Hysterectomy Patient Communication

This Limpopo woman’s trauma after an emergency hysterectomy shows the lack of communication between doctors and patients

A Limpopo woman is in shock after doctors performed a hysterectomy without her permission. Doctors say it was necessary to save her life after complications with her pregnancy. As studies show, the experience of the 36-year-old woman is not unique, highlighting poor communication in the labour ward.
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16 Days of Activism gender-based violence

Sixteen Days of Activism aimed at shining light on ‘shadow pandemic’ of gender-based violence

Global activities are planned to make the 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence. This year the theme is ‘Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!’ Globally, one in three women experience physical or sexual violence, most often perpetrated by an intimate partner.
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Covid-19 burden on women

Double burden: Covid-19 has made the load women carry even heavier than before

Even before the pandemic, women carried an unequal burden of social, cultural and economic ills. The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated this, with the effects of lockdown disproportionately affecting women, write Charlotte Motsoari and Amina Mwaikambo at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation.
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