According to the 2015 annual crime report, cases of defilement, sodomy, bestiality, bigamy, abduction and indecent assault have also increased. Read more »
An estimated 266 Kenyan women die per 100,000 unsafe abortions annually. Read more »
"Young people are entering the reproductive age but they are faced with numerous barriers in accessing long acting reversible family planning methods, because it is assumed ... Read more »
The World Health Organisation has commemorated World Prematurity Day, noting that roughly 15 million babies are born ahead of term each year. Read more »
Schoolgirls are being forced to undergo public pregnancy tests after the government banned pregnant girls from attending mainstream schools, says Amnesty International. Read more »
Nearly one million babies die the day they are born. A disproportionate number of those babies are African, and hundreds of thousands of African women die during pregnancy and ... Read more »
This week's Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference in Mexico urged strategies to reduce high levels of preventable deaths of babies and mothers. If the world wants to do it, it ... Read more »
Lagos-based Wellbeing Foundation Africa is recruiting partners for a new push to reduce high levels of maternal and infant deaths. This week at The Hague, Wellbeing founder and ... Read more »
Nurses trained in midwifery are opting to go and work abroad where the pay is more attractive. Read more »
While giving birth in hospital, Khanyi Nzama a mother of two, had heard about the donor breast milk programme and, troubled by the suffering around her, she decided to sign up for ... Read more »
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