Ethiopia: 'Choosing Our Future' - Health Minister's Speech to Family Planning Summit

Following is the text of the address by Ethiopia's Minister of Health Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to delegates at the London Summit on Family Planning: Read more »

Senegal: Health Minister Says Family Planning a National Priority

Following is the text of the address by Senegal's Minister of Health Dr Awa Marie Coll-Seck to the Family Planning Summit: Read more »

Nigeria: Govt Pledges to Supply More Contraceptives

Following is an address to the Global Family Planning Summit by Dr Muhammad Ali Pate, the Minister of State for Health of Nigeria. Read more »

Africa: London Summit Aims to Save Lives With Family Planning

A summit aimed at halving the number of women in developing countries without access to contraception opens in London on Wednesday, and African women stand to benefit the most… Read more »

South Africa: Clinic Shows How to Cut Maternal Deaths

In a country where deaths from pregnancy and childbirth have been rising - more than four-fold in a decade, according to reports - not a single maternal death was recorded at a… Read more »

Mali: Making Mothers Matter

It's a typical weekday morning at the Luxembourg Mother-Child hospital in the capital, Bamako. Around 20 patients are there for appointments - shy teenagers sit alongside more… Read more »

Kenya: Vaccine Could Reduce Cervical Cancer Deaths

At age 22, all Martha Achieng' Ooko really craved was freedom and a place to call her own. She was working hard as a beautician, giving manicures and pedicures in the western… Read more »

Kenya: Lack of Screening, Vaccines for Cervical Cancer Costs Lives

At age 22, all Martha Achieng' Ooko really craved was freedom and a place to call her own. She was working hard as a beautician, giving manicures and pedicures in the western… Read more »

Africa: Empower Women for Food Security, Says UN

Ensuring the full equality of women and girls will make a significant contribution to reducing hunger and malnutrition in Africa according to a new report released by the United… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Where Giving Birth Is Deadly

Her limbs flaccid, her eyes wide with fear and pain, Théthé's cries seem oddly detached from her body, as if part of her isn't lying on a brown vinyl mattress, slick… Read more »

Africa: Kickstarting Entrepreneurship and Progress

KickStart, a non-proft that promotes technology and entrepreneurism in Africa, was among those honoured at the first Innovation Award for the Empowerment of Women and Girls held… Read more »

Africa: Are Maternal Deaths a 'Right to Life' Issue?

Picture yourself in a room with 30 other women - knowing that one of you will die during pregnancy or childbirth. That's not a concept for a macabre TV show - unless it's reality… Read more »

Kenya: Slum Midwives Bridge Labour Gap

To the casual visitor, the dusty, dimly lit room may not look much like a birthing center. But many women consider their babies lucky to enter the world in this mud-walled space in… Read more »

Africa: Feeding the Planet by Leveling the Plowing Field for Women

In 1900, there were a mere 1.6 billion people on our planet. Today, there are seven billion and by 2050 we will be nine billion. One would expect that with such rapid population… Read more »

Africa: Women Scientists Face Tough Choices

Rufaro Madakadze, a horticultural scientist with the Alliance for a Green Revolution (AGRA), was visiting a student recently in northern Ethiopia to discuss her acceptance into an… Read more »

South Sudan: Striving for Equity in Health for Women

Today, March 8, marks International Women's Day, a day in which to both note the tremendous strides women have made globally over the past 100 years, as well as acknowledge the… Read more »

Africa: Farmers Shape Global Future Say World Leaders

Expanding the yield of smallscale agriculture is vital – not only to feed those in need, but to ensure global stability and preserve the environment. Read more »

Africa: Women Filmmakers Tell Their Stories

Documentary filmmaking holds a special place in the history of African women's cinema. In 1972, Senegalese filmmaker Safi Faye became the first sub-Saharan African woman to make a… Read more »

Africa: Empowering Women to Fight HIV

What makes a young African doctor decide to devote her career to helping women fight HIV? Dr. Sengeziwe Sibeko is a 37-year-old medical researcher with a degree in obstetrics and… Read more »

Africa: Back to the Lab

Professor Salim Abdool Karim, director of the Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (Caprisa) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Columbia University in the… Read more »

Africa: No Changing Mindset on Contraception 'Overnight'

Dr. Quarraisha Abdool Karim is an infectious diseases epidemiologist and associate scientific director of the Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in South Africa (Caprisa).… Read more »

Africa: No Time to 'Give Up' on HIV-Fighting Gel

Africans tracking the worldwide HIV epidemic have not found much to celebrate since Aids began ravaging the continent 30 years ago, but researchers are optimistic that they are… Read more »

Africa: AU Urged to Recognise Women's Role in Trade

Delegates who recently attended a gender summit in Addis Ababa hope the African Union Summit on Intra-African Trade that was also held there will take their recommendations into… Read more »

Africa: Addressing Climate Change as a Human Rights Issue

Twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the promise of sustainable development will be revisited again at the 2012 Rio+20 United Nations Conference on… Read more »

Africa: Malaria Scientist Does Groundbreaking Research

At the Malaria Forum hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in October, the latest findings on what is currently the most viable malaria vaccine candidate in medical… Read more »