President Goodluck Jonathan is contemplating the implementation of a birth control law that will curb the number of children families are allowed to have. Read more »
Although termination of pregnancy is legal in most African countries, women continue to go for illegal "backstreet" abortions, which are unsafe. Read more »
Despite a significant reduction in child deaths around the globe, a new report shows that sub-Saharan Africa has made the least progress. Read more »
Parliament has been tasked with the harmonisation of the Abortion Act with Article 14 of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in ... Read more »
Dr Richard Kamwi, the Minister of Health and Social Services in Namibia, says he is saddened by a recent increase in the number of maternal and infant deaths at state hospitals in ... Read more »
Current estimates by the UN and World Bank states that maternal deaths have been reduced from 610 for each 100,000 births to 450. Read more »
The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the most dangerous countries in the world in which to conceive. Over her lifetime, a Congolese woman faces a one in 24 chance of dying ... Read more »
More than a million premature babies die worldwide each year, but the majority could be saved if a range of existing inexpensive treatments and procedures were made more widely ... Read more »
A Catholic group have march through the streets of Lagos to protest against abortion, homosexuality and the use of contraceptives. Read more »
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