In 2018, Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng took the stage at Aspen Ideas: Health Festival. “What will the next phase of my journey look like?”, she asked the universe. The universe has answered: UN Special Rapporteur for Health. Today, the Aspen New Voices Fellowship congratulates Dr. T, as she is affectionately known, on her new role. Dr …
Dr. Tlaleng is the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health. She is a regular guest on various radio programs, publishes a column in the Sunday Times, writes op-eds in the Daily Maverick and other publications, and has presented on Al Jazeera amongst other media appearances. Dr. Tlaleng is also a member of the …
Nominations for our 2019 class of fellows open on August 15! Who should be nominated? For inspiration, hear the story of Tlaleng Mofokeng, a current New Voices fellow, at this year's Undaunted event during the Aspen Ideas Festival Spotlight Health.
The Trump administration’s policy blocking US aid to foreign entities that provide abortion services is at odds with the laws of many developing countries, including South Africa. But with so much money on the line, how can governments uphold women’s rights? My country liberalized abortion more than two decades ago, but on January 23, 2017, US …
I have been an abortion provider for as long as I have been a qualified doctor. In the past five years, I have been inundated with emails, social media requests and calls from women from all walks of life desperate for my help. I will never forget one young woman who came to the public …