The country has introduced the low priced GAVI-supported Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine to protect school girls against cervical cancer. Read more »
More than one million babies die the day they are born and the countries with the highest rates of these deaths are in Africa, according to Save the Children's annual report on the ... Read more »
Nearly half of all pregnancies are unintended despite the country's progress in the use of contraceptives over the last decade, according to a report by the Rwanda School of Public ... Read more »
A new report by the Legal and Human Rights Centre has indicated an increase in human rights violations, including child abuse, in the country. Read more »
The National Gender and Equality Commission chairperson, Winnie Lichuma, has praised President Uhuru Kenyatta over the one-third gender threshold in his Cabinet nominees with six ... Read more »
Activists advocating for better reproductive health services and gender equality have blamed practices of child marriage for the violation of women and girls rights in the country. Read more »
Julie Gichuru is working on a new TV show that features African and global leaders of government and industry as well as civil society discussing various aspects of leadership on ... Read more »
Jessica Vale's documentary "Small Small Thing" which follows a young girl in Liberia who was raped at the tender age will be screened at Temple University in America. Read more »
South Africa's Minister of Women, Children and People with Disabilities, Lulu Xingwana, says no mercy must be shown against those found guilty of the brutal assault against a 49 ... Read more »
The country's first and only fertility clinic has recorded its first successful birth through in vitro fertilisation, a process which makes it possible for couples faced with ... Read more »
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