According to 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,
based on demographic health data from 1998 and 2016, shows an increase in the
percentage of unwanted births from 17.3% in 1998 to 20.4% in 2016.
Various forms of temporary contraception
are already available in the public sector in South Africa – including condoms
and birth control pills, intra-uterine devices and contraceptive implants for
women - although availability of these various options varies between
According to
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
Free vasectomies offered at new menâs health clinic in Cape metro
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The Metro Menâs Health Centre has partnered with Tygerberg Hospital to provide free vasectomies to men in the Western Cape.
The Metro Menâs Health Centre opened its doors in November last year at the Karl Bremer Hospital in Cape Town.
The facility is aimed at empowering boys and men to lead healthy lives and will provide a range of healthcare services for men, including screening for chronic diseases, HIV prevention interventions, treating sexually transmitted diseases (STIs), and offering medical male circumcision.
Living in the Western Cape and looking get a free vasectomy? Hereâs how
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Cape Town â Are you living in the the Western Cape currently looking for how to get a free vasectomy and not sure how to go about it? The Western Cape Health Department has revealed how to do just that.
The Metro Menâs Health Centre has collaborated with Tygerberg Hospital to provide free vasectomies to men in the province. The service will be offered at the menâs centre, which first opened its doors on November 30, 2020.
A vasectomy, also called male sterilisation, is a surgical procedure where the sperm tubes (
Data the world over suggests men are less likely than women to seek and use health services and tend to be sicker when eventually seeking medical help. In South Africa around a third of new HIV infections in 2019 were in men, while more than half of the deaths due to HIV were in men.
It is a long-standing question that many health experts have been grappling with: How do we get more men to seek healthcare services? One solution now being tried in the Western Cape is a clinic just for men. The Metro Men’s Health Centre at the Karl Bremer Hospital in Cape Town was officially opened in November last year as part of “Movember”.