Achievement in reducing infant and maternal mortality, as well as controlling communicable diseases, is a result of the substantial investments made in the past 20 years, an ... Read more »
Early and forced marriages are common in Luapula Province, northern Zambia, where the incidence of early pregnancy and under-age marriage is estimated at about 70 percent, says the ... Read more »
The Zimbabwean government should urgently investigate the deaths of newborn babies at a settlement it created to re-house people made homeless by its mass forced eviction program ... Read more »
The mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS in the country dropped by 8.3 percent, from 11 percent in 2004 to 2.7 percent by the end of last year. Read more »
The Western Cape has convened an emergency summit to address the increase in the number of abandoned babies in the province. Almost 500 babies were abandoned in the year ending ... Read more »
Hundreds of thousands of women suffer fistula in solitude and shame, and the United Nations Population Fund estimates that more than two million women live with it in the ... Read more »
A World Health Organization study shows progress in maternal health in sub-Saharan Africa, where maternal deaths have decreased by 26 percent. But the death rate is still the ... Read more »
Kenyans can now save towards the cost of childbirth at the country's largest maternal hospital thanks to a medical smart card system. Read more »
A lack of contraceptives in Uganda has dire consequences for women's reproductive health rights. Read more »
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