Source: Linked Local Network
Africa’s population will reach four billion by 2100, according to a report released by UNICEF early this week. As the population grows, more investment in maternal health and family planning resources will be needed to ensure women’s reproductive health.
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed legislation this week criminalizing the transmission of HIV, a measure that allows doctors to violate confidentiality and disclose their patients’ HIV status without consent and calls for mandatory testing for pregnant women and their partners in violation of their human rights.
Source: Huffington Post
The deadliest Ebola outbreak on record has quickly spread across West Africa over the past few months, moving rapidly from Guinea into Liberia, Sierra Leone, and eventually Nigeria, with at least 2,127 suspected cases. First identified in March 2014, the virus has claimed the lives of 1,145 deaths, men, women and children alike, leaving governments and healthcare providers struggling to contain this relentless virus and avoid a globalized epidemic.
Source: The Guardian
Women do not seem to have a place in the pope's vision of a Catholic church that cares for the world's poor people
Source: Swazi Observer
"Violence against women, violence against our mothers and sisters has reached an unacceptable level and we all must join efforts to put this to an end," says Oniel Bestman, one of many men who participated in the One Billion Rising for Justice Campaign in Monrovia.
Source: The Point
FGM is no doubt one of the most controversial traditional practices affecting the health and right of women and girls in our society. FGM is found rotating between two key players of our society: the health workers and the religious leaders with each of this two giving out different opinions as regards FGM.
Source: IPS News
Barbara Kemigisa used to call herself an "HIV/AIDS campaigner". These days she would rather be known as an "HIV/AIDS family planning campaigner". "We need to reduce unplanned pregnancies and the HIV infection rate in our country," Kemigisa told IPS during Uganda's first national family planning conference on July 28. "It's about dual protection."
Source: Huffington Post
The Obama administration is pushing for greater U.S. investment in Africa. But the great African summit, held in Washington recently, was largely theater; necessary and important, but still a work of fiction.
Source: The Guardian
Sudanese women contribute greatly to their communities during war, but they have been left out of the formal peace process
Source: IPS News
Growing up with five brothers, soccer-mad Majidah Nantanda had half a team to compete against at home in Makindye, a suburb in Uganda's capital, Kampala. But at her school, in the 1990s, there were two sports rules: "Netball for the girls and football for the boys," recalls the 32-year-old, as she stands on the sidelines of a boy's game in Makindye.
Source: Daily News
A coalition of groups advocating for women's rights said Monday it is necessary to include women in the upcoming governor reshuffle after a minister said women would only be appointed as "deputies and assistants".
Source: Peace FM
The Ark foundation Ghana, an advocacy-based Women's Rights Non-governmental Organization whose primary purpose is to seek the promotion and protection of the rights of women and children has embarked on Young Urban Women's Project to create awareness on the need for young women in the Urban Communities to be economic independent.
Source: SA News
Home Affairs Deputy Minister Fatima Chohan says the underrepresentation of women in social, political and economic spheres must be addressed if Africa is to develop fully.
Source: Leadership Nigeria The Centre for Promotion of Ethics, Values and National Integration (CENPEVNI), has said that it has secured admission for the 57 escaped Chibok school girls from a school in the United States of America (USA), through its collaboration with other groups.
Source: Spy Ghana Connected Development [CODE] with support from the New Venture Fund through the development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC) brought together Seventeen (17) young women from different spheres of life in Abuja to build their capacities in identifying issues faced when overcoming barriers to girl child education in Nigeria.
Source: Al Jazeera After Kouame Koffi's daughter Grace was born in 2008, he swore he would not have any more children. Koffi's wife, Odette, had given birth twice before, in their one-room home in N'Dakro, a remote village about three hours outside of Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote d'Ivoire.
Source: Spy Ghana The Second Lady of Republic of Ghana Her Excellency Mrs. Matilda Amissah – Arthur has admonished the youth to abstain from pre-marital sex in order to avoid unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Source: GhanaWeb More than 100 basic school girls from the East Akyem and Akuapem North Municipalities in the Eastern Region have been trained in Adolescence Reproductive Health issues at a Camp, organised Plan Ghana.
Source: Zambia Daily Mail Education is very important for every child whether boy or girl. It is, therefore, sad that some communities still discriminate against the education of the girl-child.
Source: SpyGhana
A research finding from a study of girls’ sexual relations outcomes in Accra suggest that the Ghana’s Reproductive Policy adopted in 2000 may not be sufficient in addressing the reproductive health of young girls.