Source: The New Vision
Cervical cancer is now one of the most common cancers in women. Cancer is a disease in which the cells in the body develop out of control.
Source: The Star
Two teenage girls in Tseikuru district, Kitui County want their father arrested and charged for defiling and making one of them - a standard six pupil - pregnant. With the help of the World Vision NGO officials, the two who have suffered in silence for years have finally spilled the beans.
Source: This Day
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Monday charged Society for Obstetrics and Gynaecology of Nigeria, (SOGON) Nigeria Fertility Society (NFS) and other associated professional bodies to embark on cutting edge research to unravel the mystery surrounding endometriosis, a disease that is frequently misdiagnosed and consequently takes up
Source: Premium Times
The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) has advocated the inclusion of sex education in schools' curriculum to curb rising cases of violence against women. The President of the body, Hauwa Shekarau, made the call in an interview in Abuja on Thursday.
Source: This Day
Global and national efforts to integrate gender equality and women's empowerment into poverty reduction, democratic governance, and sustainable development, can achieve the desired impact if private organisations join in the crusade, write Abimbola Akosile and Eromosele Abiodun.
Source: Sowetan
A FORMER war journalist and award-winning human rights activist and author Jimmie Briggs says a real man is someone who stands up and acts against abuse of women and children.
Source: UNESCO
Maiga Hadizatou Hamzatou teaches at the Ouleimatou school in the northern Malian city of Gao, Mali. In an interview with UNESCO, she describes the disruption caused to schooling and everyday life when the city was invaded on 31 March 2012.
Source: Green Prophet
Two years after the revolution in Egypt, sexual assaults against women are rising and becoming more violent, says several human rights organizations.
Source: Sabahi Online
Somalia's federal government pledged action aafter a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report alleged that state security force members were committing rapes and other abuses against women and girls at camps for internally displaced persons in Mogadishu.
Source: Vanguard
Scientists have discovered that apart from pollinating crops, producing honey, beeswax , propolis, pollen and royal jelly, bees could also be the solution to the deadly Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and cancer.
Source: Vanguard
In recent times there have been questions, and different debates whether a woman should drink alcohol during pregnancy or not.
Several studies have pointed to one direction that alcohol no matter how little is not acceptable or safe during pregnancy.
In fact, scientists in most of the studies revealed that alcohol and pregnancy don't mix. The studies stated that when you drink,
Source: The Star
THE Kenya National Union of Teachers has asked the education ministry to create a department to help fight HIV/Aids in the teaching fraternity. Bomet branch acting executive secretary Malel Langat said the department will give teachers proper skills to use when talking to their students about HIV/Aids.
Source: The New Times
A two-day national forum on disability and HIV⁄Aids ended yesterday with a call to achieve zero new infection, zero death and zero stigma by 2015.
Source: UN News
A United Nations envoy has praised the efforts of the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to address conflict-related sexual violence, and announced the signing of an agreement with the country’s authorities to address this pervasive issue.
"BE aggressive! use your teeth to bite any part of the body of a rapist, for evidence," these were unsympathetic words from a community leader to women in efforts to counter gender violence in his area.
Source: UN News
A United Nations envoy today expressed dismay at the sexual attacks on women protesters in Egypt, as well as the messages from prominent religious and political leaders that women are to blame.
Source: UN News
A United Nations envoy has arrived in Somalia on an information-gathering visit to raise awareness and discuss ways of addressing sexual violence in the Horn of Africa country.
Source: CIO
Google has created a special Doodle on its homepages across Sub Sahara Africa to mark the 73rd birthday of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Wangari Maathai. In the doodle, a figure of a smiling Wangari replaces the second "o" in the Google logo.
Source: The Zimbabwean
Fatima Shabodien, Country Director for ActionAid South Africa, believes access and control of land is the best way of empowering ordinary African women. She spoke to The Zimbabwean’s Tarisai Jangara about how BRICS, a group of emerging economic powers, would assist African women.
Source: The Star
A number of doctors have raised the alarm about what they see a dangerous move by their bosses at the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation headquarters in Afya House. They are concerned that a decision to replace tried and tested HIV testing kits with new ones that have not yet met the approval of the World Health Organization may be motivated by financial considerations, rather than the health and well-being of Kenyans.