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Though South Africa has in some respects done well in the provision of sexual and reproductive health services for adolescent girls and young women, significant gaps remain.
Sexual and reproductive health: Tiyese Jeranji takes an in-depth look at the current policy landscape and asks how policy implementation measures up to their lofty ambitions.
A new report from the Stop Stockouts Project (SSP) has found that contraceptives now represent the biggest share of medicine stockouts. A survey was undertaken by SSP in collaboration with the Ritshidze project from April to June 2022. The report forms part of a number of other reports the SSP has done since 2013. This was the findings of the latest report.
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Unwanted Fertility in South Africa, a recently published report from Statistics South Africa, “about 20% of all births in the five years preceding the 2016 Demographic and Health Survey (including pregnancies at the time), happened when women were not planning on having any more children”. The report shows an increase in unwanted births from 17.3% in 1998 to 20.4% in 2016.
The public sector offers various forms of temporary contraception – including condoms and birth control pills, intrauterine devices and contraceptive implants for women – although availability varies between healthcare facilities. There are no registered contraceptive pills or implants for men, but research is ongoing.
There are more permanent options such as female and male sterilisation – the latter in the form of vasectomy. According to a