Acting upon critical communications received from Connaught Hospital's Care Manager, Dr. Desmond Olu-Black, through Sierra Leone's Minister of Lands, Country Planning and the Environment, Hope of Africa's Director Abigail Thomas is directing a swift fundraising effort, starting with a formal black tie dinner dance to be held this Saturday, October 11th, 2008, 7:00pm to 1:00am at The Westin Atlanta ...

The father of quadruplets who were born at Emure General Hospital in Emure Local Government Area of Ekiti on Monday Mr Kunle Adesanya, has fled from home.

Mr. Kunle Adesanya, the father of quadruplets who were born at the Emure General Hospital in the Emure Local Government Area of Ekiti State last Monday, has fled from home.

Faced with a decline in funding for reproductive health services (RH), regional experts have called for access to financial resources available for HIV/ AIDS programmes.

ON September 15, 2008, The New Vision carried a full-page advertisement from Marie Stopes International Uganda in which the advertiser stated that, "Marie Stopes International Uganda subscribes to the Marie Stopes International's goal and mission, which is to prevent unwanted births and to ensure the individual's right to children by choice not chance."

THE Sekondi-Takoradi branch of the Ghana Chamber of Commerce (GCC) is courting the support of the media, to help facilitate the mission and vision of the Chamber, to the outside world.

The Naivasha children's officer Peter Kabuagi has decried the rise in cases of child abuse in the area.

Niger State Pilgrims Welfare Board has disqualified 23 pregnant women from performing this year's Hajj.

Minister of health and sanitation has called for a reorganization of the way women in Sierra Leone give birth with particular emphasis on the role of traditional birth attendants, TBAs. Currently one in eight women is at risk of dying while giving birth in the country.

Pastoral Letter of His Eminence John Cardinal Njue, Archbishop of Nairobi and Apostolic Administrator of Murang'a Diocese

Ninenty-eight per cent of expectant mothers in Nakapiripirit District deliver at home with the assistance of traditional birth attendants, a report presented by the District Health Officer, Dr John Anguzo, has indicated.

Some 34 students in Arusha region did not sit for the final standard seven primary school education this year due to early pregnancies.

UGANDA has great thinkers according to the Unicef Representative in Uganda Keith McKenzie and Dr Emmanuel Otaala, the state minister for primary health care.

About 45,000 newborns die annually in Uganda, a new report has revealed. Over half of these die during the first week of life, particularly in their first 24 hours.

A new report on the health of new-born babies in Uganda has revealed that many of them die of preventable causes due to failure to abide by simple life-saving practices.

The United States Agency for International Development has issued a new directive requiring several African countries, to stop the provision of the United States-funded contraceptives to Marie Stopes International (MSI), one of the world's leading family planning NGOs.

IGANGA LC5 chairman Asuman Kyafu has advised women to embrace family planning to avoid having children they cannot look after.

Luanda will host an international meeting on management of haemorrhages during pregnancy, delivery and post-delivery, from October 13-14 this year, as part of the effort to improve maternal and neo-natal health care in the continent.

A study aimed at devising cost effective methods of reducing deaths among newborns has been launched, with results expected in 2010. The study, to be conducted by the Makerere University School of Public Health (MUSPH) with funding from Save the Children, was launched last week at the Iganga-Mayuge Demographic Surveillance Site.

As world leaders gather in New York to review progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), increased attention is needed to improve maternal health, the goal showing the least progress.

The leading mobile network in the country, Zain Sierra Leone over the weekend brought smiles once again on the faces of 14 nursing mothers in Makeni and Kono as it completed its 'Zain babies' presentation in the country.

An infuriating, yet widespread, characteristic of our society is how blame is heaped on women, pretty much whenever something goes wrong, especially in relationships. This is particularly painful when couples are unable to have a baby, with the blame always leveled against the woman. She is forced to go through a series of fertility tests and hop from one doctor to another, just to determine her ...

Reporters Without Borders condemns the detention of journalist Lewis Medjo in the western city of Douala. The publisher of the Douala-based "Détente Libre" weekly, Medjo was arrested by the head of the judiciary police as he left a dinner in a Douala hotel on the evening of 22 September 2008.

Siamese twin babies of female sex joined by the belly were born last Friday night in Cajueiros Hospital, in Luanda's Cazenga District.

Following reported cases of high maternal mortality rate in Ebonyi State, Ipas, an international no-governmental organisation (NGO) that promotes women's sexual, reproductive health and rights, has commenced efforts to extend its services to state.