Source: Vanguard
THE joy of every woman is to deliver her baby normally. This is in spite of the many travails associated with pregnancy and delivery. Before now, the most available or preferred option for most women is natural birth.
Source: The Observer (Kampala)
Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP) is this July launching another third Phase I trial to develop an HIV vaccine since 1999 when the first trial was launched.
Source: The New Vision
Rubaga Girls Primary School pupils had assembled to listen to an HIV awareness talk.The school always created an opportunity for the pupils and their parents to learn about different issues, including HIV.
Source: Daily Trust
At least three in 10 young girls have sex for the first time ever through rape, says a survey.
The survey by Positive Action for Treatment Access (PATA) investigated reasons for high HIV prevalence and lower age of first sex among adolescents aged between 10 and 19 and found "forced sex was the third main reason for sexual debut" after love and peer pressure.
Source: New Times
Business Times continues to profile successful business women, who will share their success tips and experiences of how they made it in the cutthroat and male-dominated business world. They reveal how they started out, what inspired them and how they have managed to make their business dreams come true. This week, Peterson Tumwebaze caught up with Meledah Twahirwa, a lawyer turned business woman.
Source: Cameroon Tribune
First Lady, Mrs Chantal Biya joined scores of women at the 20th May Boulevard to mark Unity Day Celebration.
Women from all walks of life, particularly those in the Defence Forces, yesterday May 20 displayed their strength in meeting challenges for an emerging Cameroon during a mast past at the 20th May Boulevard which saw them marched with guns as if to say "what a man can do; a woman can do and even better".
Source: Vanguard
AHEAD of the Women Deliver 2013 International Conference which opens in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia May 27, the health, wellbeing and survival of girls and women the world over, have been identified as critical factors for global development. In a call for improved and sustained investment in the health and wellbeing of girls and women all over the world, Jill Sheffield, President/Founder of Women Deliver - a global advocacy organisation working to generate political commitment and financial investment for fulfilling Millennium Development Goal 5 - asserts that investing in girls and women pays.
Source: Rwanda Focus
Way back in my primary school we were taught that father is the head of the family. Our teachers were right because those were the days no doubt the father was the head of his family. He, after all, brought home the bread and dictated what the family would eat. But with the emergence of the so-called empowered woman, however, those days are long gone.
Source: UN News Service
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today commended the Government and people of Mozambique for steady progress in political development, but urged greater efforts to overcome human rights challenges, including discrimination and violence against women, through education and awareness-raising.
At a visit to the Samsão Muthemba secondary school, Mr. Ban highlighted his UNiTE to end violence against women and girls campaign to raise public knowledge and increase political will and resources for preventing and ending all forms of gender-based violence.
Source: Times of Zambia
DESPITE the positive macro-economic performance Zambia has achieved in the recent years, financial inclusion continues to be a challenge as a number of Zambians remain without access to financial services.
Further, the entry of new commercial banks and the expansion of products and services by market players have not helped in changing the situation as some parts of Zambia have no banking and financial services.
Source: FrontPageAfrica
Victoria Kanu, 30, sits in front of her sewing machine turning the wheels as she puts the finishing lines to the dress of a waiting customer. She looks happy and alive as she tells FrontPageAfrica her ordeal that led her to contracting Fistula.
Victoria lived happily with her boyfriend in Zleh Town, Grand Gedeh County with their two year old baby, but suddenly one day in November 2010 they got into a fight and something terrible happened that would ruin her dignity as a human being and a woman and isolate her from her community.
Source: The Herald
A KADOMA man endured a hellish two days at the hands of four women who reportedly kidnapped him at gunpoint and locked him up in a room where they would take turns to be intimate with him before giving him trinkets and later dumping him on the side of the road, police have said. Before going on gruelling sessions of sexually satisfying the women, they would give him a meal of sadza and chicken which police now suspect to have been laced with an aphrodisiac.
Source: South African Government
Days of women delivering at home are soon to be a thing of the past in the North West province. The Department of Health has established maternity waiting homes and also procured ten (10) Obstetric ambulances to exclusively transport pregnant women, MEC Dr. Magome Masike said on Tuesday.
Tabling the R7.6 Billion budget at the Provincial Legislature in Mmabatho, MEC Masike said this was to ensure that pregnant women deliver within health care facilities.
Source: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Thirty-year-old Cynthia Jadot is the woman behind Valancy. The store in Goma, in the DRC province of North Kivu, has done well, appealing to men and women with a penchant for quality clothes imported from Europe.
But since Valancy's launch three years ago, this businesswoman has also opened two other new shops and, somewhere in between, ran for a seat in parliament.
Source: Rwanda Focus
The draft law on family and persons which is under scrutiny in the parliamentary committee on political affairs and gender, has been generating a lot of debate.
One of the biggest sources of controversy was the suggestion to lower the legal marriage age from 21 years to 18 (article 166). According to MP Alfred Rwaka Kayiranga, in a survey conducted by lawmakers in 19 districts, the public spoke out against the proposal.
Source: IPS
A decade ago, less than a third of school-aged girls in Niger were in class. Today, though significant cultural and religious opposition remains, nearly two-thirds of girls are enrolled in school.
"Back in 2003, we had only 15 girls at my school, out of 150 students. Now, we have 103 girls out of a total of 175 students," said Ibrahim Sani, who has taught for 17 years in the town of Agadez, in the northern part of this West African country.
Source: This Day
As part of measures to curtail domestic violence or harmful attacks against women, Senate President, David Mark, at the weekend expressed the National Assembly's commitment to pass the Violence against Persons (prohibition) Bill into law soon.
Source: The News
"We were rejected, neglected, abandoned and stigmatized by family members, friends and love ones as a result of the pupu and pepe sickness we were suffering from; but today, our stories have changed; those who rejected us are now embracing us," these were the words of some fistula survivors who have now been reintegrated into communities.
Source: Daily Trust
Nollywood super actress, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde and Hollywood star, Halle Berry went all out to fight for a cause. The duo, along with others, did a walk to support women with breast cancer.
Source: The New Vision
MAKERERE University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP) is to carry out trials for an HIV vaccine in July.
The project executive director, Dr. Hannah Kibuuka, told journalists during a media dialogue at their offices in Kampala that the trials would involve 120 participants.