Chlorhexidine is an antiseptic gel that has been proven to reduce the incidence of neonatal mortality by about 23% when used in and around the umbilical cord of a newborn, writes ... Read more »

As Nigeria's presidential campaign accelerates, the wife of a leading contender focuses on her campaign for women and children. Toyin Saraki says she supports her husband, Senate ... Read more »

When Mama Adekunle, as she is fondly called, heard the news of the birth of a child to her son, she did what most new grandmothers in Nigeria do - she rushed over to perform her ... Read more »

President John Magufuli has told Tanzanians not to listen to those advising about birth control, urging them to continue having children. Read more »

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 »