The national health policy has considered primary healthcare as the framework to improve health services for all citizens, including the provision of health education, ... Read more »
A study that suggested Kenyan teens want access to contraception led to heated reactions on social media, with many saying that telling teenagers about contraception amounted to ... Read more »
"I am the one who should decide whether to go to the alternative or the mainstream school," said 17-year-old Sarah Bassie, an alternative school student. Read more »
Across Nigeria, health workers are trying to improve maternal mortality. But the figures are alarming: in 2015, there were an estimated 814 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births ... Read more »
So as Africans, where are we learning about sex? And the bigger question is this: Why do we not speak, practically, to our parents about sex, asks Socrates Mbamalu in This Is ... Read more »
Bill and Melinda Gates have released their annual letter, and this time it is addressed to their "dear friend" Warren Buffett, who donated most of his fortune to the Gates ... Read more »
President Yoweri Museveni has on the sidelines of the 28th AU summit, urged regional leaders to agree on a joint military operation to flush out remaining members of the Lord's ... Read more »
Around 20 percent of local births over the past five years have occurred at home, experts say. Read more »
An expectant mother was forced to leave Kenya because of the doctors' strike, and cross the border to seek medical attention. Read more »
A Unicef official has said that early marriages forced on adolescent girls who have not fully developed for the delivery of babies, is one of the causes in the rise of obstetric ... Read more »
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