An alliance among a Nigerian philanthropy, a global private-sector company and one of Europe's foremost medical research institutions is pioneering a model that could demonstrate ... Read more »

"Breast milk offers all the antibodies a baby needs; some 823,000 child deaths could be prevented each year by near universal breastfeeding, yet marketing companies' outlays dwarf ... Read more »

Unsafe abortions remain one of the main causes of 18% of maternal deaths and manywomen, particularly those in rural areas, believe that the proposed abortion law can change that. ... Read more »

Burundi has joined Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Togo in applying a punitive and discriminatory school policy against pregnant girls and teenage mothers. This new ... Read more »

South African civil society organisation Equal Education (EE) has moved to to address allegations of covering up a sexual harassment scandal after Tshepo Motsepe resigned from his ... Read more »

In vitro fertilization is a process of fertilization where the egg is harvested and combined with sperm outside the body, in a laboratory, and once fertilized, is placed back into ... Read more »

Nigeria and Ghana are the two countries with the highest search interest for Misoprostol, an abortion pill. The findings, according to the BBC, also suggest that in countries where ... Read more »

Louis Lakor was abducted in a night raid and forced to become a child soldier with the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group, which terrorised northern Uganda for nearly two decades ... Read more »

Abortions are only allowed in Zimbabwe if a woman's life is in danger, if there is a risk that the child will be "seriously handicapped" or if the pregnancy was the result of rape ... Read more »

As frontline healthworkers at the heart of each community, midwives have a vital role in driving sustainable development and key to helping mothers, and expectant-mothers, make ... Read more »