Spending $25 a woman annually on healthcare could save millions of lives

Investing in reproductive healthcare would bring huge benefits for women and children and reduce long-term costs, says report by Guttmacher Institute and UN

Can you imagine a world without condoms for safe sex? Scientists can

Dr Bethany Young Holt: Right now, if women want to protect themselves from HIV and pregnancies, condoms are the only option. But technology is about to change all that

Is Egypt ready to join growing global movement to end FGM?

Suad Abu-Dayyeh: The acquittal of those involved in the tragic story of Sohair al-Bata’a, who died after undergoing FGM, highlights the need for Egypt to outlaw the practice

Breastfeeding targets set up new mothers to fail. Let’s get real

Enough of the one-size-fits-all approach. What women need are individually tailored feeding plans developed before the birth that are actually achievable

FGM issues to be explored in UK theatre production Rites

National Theatre of Scotland to collaborate with Contact theatre in Manchester for drama about female genital mutilation

People with a vagina have needs – but making their baby-cannon smell of fruit is not one of them

Lindy West: It wasn’t true, but the story that Sweet Peach Probiotics wanted to re-aroma women’s vaginas said a lot about men’s attitudes

The history of feminine hygiene products is far from peachy

Liz Cookman: the announcement of a probiotic supplement that would make vaginas smell like peaches was erroneous, but there’s a long history of companies using science to sell unnecessary vag-products

Sweet Peach won’t make vaginas smell like fruit or taste of Diet Coke

Probiotic supplement Sweet Peach will analyse micro-organisms and has nothing to do with peach, roses or soft drinks – or the men who introduced it

It’s class, not whether a baby is breastfed, that determines life chances

Eliane Glaser: Paying working-class women to breastfeed doesn’t address the reasons for their choice, or the economic factors that are really driving inequality

We don’t know why a mum abandoned her newborn baby. But we do know that the system fails mothers

Amy Gray: As crimes go, abandoning a newborn in a drain is awful. Cases like this are exceedingly rare, but our society’s neglect of mothers makes them possible