The High Court has sentenced a nurse, Jackson Namunya Tali, for helping a woman procure an abortion that led to her death. Read more »
Health workers and activists are demanding women be allowed access to medically safe abortions in cases such as rape, as illegal abortions are now one of the leading causes of ... Read more »
After decades battling high maternal death rates, the government took a stand: it prioritized newborn and maternal health, and in 2005 it relaxed its abortion law in an effort to ... Read more »
The ethics and integrity ministry and religious leaders have opposed a new sex-education campaign to reduce teen pregnancy, maternal mortality and the cost of post-abortion medical ... Read more »
The Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede has urged the government to ban contraceptives which he claims to be killing productive women and affecting the population. Read more »
Leaders and public health experts from around the world opened a meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, to call for accelerated action to improve maternal, newborn and child ... Read more »
USAID has unveiled an action plan, Acting on the Call: Preventing Child and Maternal Deaths, to save the lives of 15 million children and nearly 600,000 women by 2020 - a milestone ... Read more »
Health officials say the adminstration of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has made significant improvements in the reduction of Liberia's maternal mortality rate, thus ensuring ... Read more »
Controversial Yoruba actress Bisi Omo Logbalogba is grabbing the headlines again as she opened an adult shop in upscale Magodo area of Lagos. Read more »
The British medical journal The Lancet has published a series of papers asserting what public health experts have been learning - that it is possible and affordable to save the ... Read more »
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