South Africa: Creating a UCT Community of Support Towards Reducing GBV

Building upon the university's existing response and support vehicles for those affected by gender-based violence (GBV), the Office for Inclusivity & Change (OIC) ran a… Read more »

South Africa: Celebrating Women Who Shape the Scientific Workplace

The Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) prides itself on the incredible research done by its world-renowned… Read more »

South Africa: 'Eliminate the Fear' - Remembering Uyinene Mrwetyana Five Years On

Five years after the tragic killing of University of Cape Town (UCT) first-year student Uyinene Mrwetyana, her memory continues to be celebrated, while the battle against sexual… Read more »

South Africa: Screen and Treat Essential to Beat Cervical Cancer

In 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) publicised a global strategy to accelerate the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem. To achieve this goal, the… Read more »

Africa: Women's Month - Shirley Kandabu, African Adventurer, Leader, Social Entrepreneur

It was just a bicycle, something many children grow up with. But for Ugandan Shirley Kandabu, those wheels represented empowerment in a country where in some cultures it was… Read more »

South Africa: Women's Month - Belhar Child Activist, Academic At the Helm of Children's Institute

Too many children in South African do not reach their fifth birthday, and when they do survive, they bear the burden of infectious diseases, inadequate nutrition, violence and… Read more »

Africa: Women's Month - UK Creates 'Hostile Environment' for African Sexual and Gender Diverse Asylum Claimants

Increasingly people are fleeing their countries of birth to seek refuge elsewhere in the world. And the reasons are plentiful - civil war, political instability, poverty due to… Read more »

South Africa: Study Uncovers Why Detecting Depression, Anxiety and Domestic Violence in Pregnant Women Is Limited

Lack of confidentiality and feelings of shame related to experiences of domestic violence as well as service providers' discomfort in dealing with mental health issues were some of… Read more »

Africa: Global Surgery Strategies, Systems Crucial to Ensuring Timely, Safe Surgery - Especially for Women

The first rural hospital patient who died on Professor Salome Maswime's watch precipitated a crisis most young doctors in community service experience. Was it her? Did she lack… Read more »

South Africa: Innovative Gynaecological Device Tackles Women's Health On the Ground

Sexual and reproductive ill-health accounts for one third of the global disease burden among women and adolescent girls of reproductive age. Despite many advances in access to… Read more »

South Africa: South African Women Innovators Win Big At International Falling Walls Lab

University of Cape Town (UCT) PhD candidate Emma Horn won second place in the Falling Walls Lab world finals with her 'green' bio-tile innovation. Tamlyn Sasha Naidu, a… Read more »