Issue highlights

• Provision of postpartum long acting reversible contraception

• Safe caesarean sections in South Africa: Is internship training sufficient?

• A comparison of malignant histopathological diagnoses on uterine curettings and hysterectomy specimens

• Maternal experiences of care following a stillbirth at Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa

• Concurrent chemo-radiation induced renal and haematological toxicities in patients with invasive cervical cancer undergoing treatment

• Bicornuate uterus with second trimester fetal demise in a rudimentary horn

• Is Medicine a process of scientific rigour?


• A proposed fetal risk scoring system for gestational diabetes to assist in optimising timing of delivery


• How to care for fetuses with prenatally diagnosed severe abnormalities


• Screening for maternal and congenital syphilis with a chemiluminescence immunoassay in a South African private specialist healthcare sector setting