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A law in its draft stages in Rwanda is calling for the forced sterilisation of mentally handicapped persons, a report published by watchdog Human Rights Watch has said.
Female internally displaced persons (IDPs) will again be able to learn job skills, take literacy classes and receive awareness programmes on reproductive health after the joint African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) helped reactivate women's centres at an IDP camp in the Sudanese region.
Police in Kanungu are hunting for two teachers over allegations of defilement and helping their victims procure abortions that led to the death of two secondary school girls.
In Senegal's southern region, 58 percent of deliveries take place at home without any medical assistance, according to state reproductive health officials in Kolda, a town 425 km from the capital, Dakar. Women in the region suffer from exceptionally high rates of fistula.
The right to the highest attainable standard of health: not the most fashionable of human rights, but the limits on people's enjoyment of their right to health often coincide with continuing inequalities behind claims of economic growth or political reform.
All pregnant women will soon have unhindered access to maternal healthcare, Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Iyabo has assured.
Jigawa State government has secured over N100 million grants from Millennium Development Goals for the eradication of maternal mortality in the state, the state commissioner of women affairs, Hajiya Fatima Widi Jallo has said.
Monica Ogutu, the executive director K-Met says: "We still need cultural and religious leaders on board. Most view family planning with disdain because they have never felt the pressure of managing unplanned children themselves, especially Catholic fathers and nuns.
IN the run-up to World Population Day, June 11, Woman will be covering a series of topics all under the theme of reproductive health. With contraceptive use in Uganda standing at a miserable 24%, there is need for mass sensitisation on the importance of family planning to curb the population explosion, which in turn, will reduce maternal and infant mortality
Husbands have been advised to be closer to their wives during pregnancy than at other times as this would reduce the rate of pregnant women's deaths.
Dr. Tunde Okewale is a leading consultant, gynecologist and fertility expert. He is the medical director of St. Ives IVF and fertility unit and St. Ives Free Health Foundation in Lagos. The hospital celebrated the delivery of its first IVF baby on June 7, 2008, less than one year after opening their IVF unit to the public. Dark and handsome Tunde had his post-graduate training and practiced as a ...
A 75-year-old Sironko woman with a swollen stomach is not pregnant, a doctor has said.
Recent report from the 2007 Demographic and Health Survey has revealed that only 4% of children in Liberia have birth certificates, while birth registration is recognized as a fundamental right by Liberia as a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
FIFTEEN women who claim that doctors at State hospitals across the country sterilised them against their wishes will soon get their day in court.
THE Ministry of Media, Information and Publicity yesterday said there was never any intention on its part to go against the provisional High Court order in the case in which four freelance journalists were challenging the legality of accrediting with the ministry to cover the recent Comesa Summit.
In 1994 at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt, so strong was the Catholic position against abortion as a family planning device that the Confab was dubbed 'The Abortion Conference'.
An official in the ministry of health attributed abortion as a key cause of 50 percent of women who die from reproductive health complications.
Anna Shikongo* wanted many more children, but five-month old Johannes, perched on her lap, will forever be her lastborn. She was sterilised by doctors at a government hospital. Now she is ready to take the government to court.
A good reproductive health law is needed. The current population fertility rate of 6.1 results in unsustainable population growth, so for the country's Vision 2020 targets to be met, this should be reduced to at maximum 4.
A Medical expert, Dr. Edward. Sowho said yesterday, in Awka that Nigeria has the worst maternal health indicators in the world, urging healthcare providers to do more possible to check the development.
For decades, Batswana believed that breastfeeding by an HIV positive mother was a big no-no to the point where some even considered it immoral even to think of it.
A medical expert, Dr. Edward Sowho, said in Awka that Nigeria has the worst maternal health indicator in the world going by World Health Organisation's findings.
Siblings share a happy moment. Leaving a spacing of at least two years between your children does not drain a woman physically and emotionally
Minster of State for Health, Dr Aliyu Idi-Hong, has said 52,900 Nigerian women die annually from pregnancy related complications out of 529,000 estimated global maternal deaths.
Two years ago, 17-year-old, Marie Louise Nsanzimana walked into Nemba hospital in Musanze district to deliver a baby.
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