Cape Town writer Malika Ndlovu has returned from London where her own experience of stillbirth was shared with the public at the launch of a landmark edition of the international health publication, The Lancet.

Entitled the Lancet Stillbirth Series, it contains the first collection of global estimates on stillbirths, and Ndlovu’s voice has added to a groundswell of advocacy among international organisations to bring the topic out of the shadows.

The publication reports that at least 2.65 mill...