Wazira rocks her tiny baby pleadingly but he is inconsolable, crying for the milk his mother can neither produce herself nor buy in a camp near the Iraqi battleground city of Mosul. "He's been crying...
A very determined teenager, who did not want to truncate her schooling due to pregnancy, managed to finish with the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) paper, in the on-going Basic...
A woman from Atlanta has sparked outrage on social media after publicly announcing that she quit her job to breastfeed her 36-year-old bodybuilder boyfriend. Speaking to The Sun, Jennifer Mulford...
The Rebecca Agroh Memorial Foundation (RAM Foundation), a Non-Governmental Organization committed to the development of women through advocacy and skills training, has marked this year’s menstrual...
Some midwives across the country have warned the Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD) against the continuous ‘illegal deductions’ of their salaries to an unknown body, which...
Despite the abundance of sanitary pads, some adolescent girls in some communities in the Northern Region continue to use rags during their menstrual cycle, whiles others have no or little knowledge...
After she lost the courage to trade in vegetables – her source of livelihood at the Aboabo market in Tamale – due to her fistula condition after her fifth birth, 40 years old Mma Fulera is now...
Student nurses who get pregnant while in nursing training colleges can now have their babies while in school. This is because the regulation that bars them from getting pregnant while undertaking...
Student nurses who get pregnant while in nursing training colleges can now have their babies while in school. This is because the regulation that bars them from getting pregnant while undertaking...
Why we need to urgently stop taxing womanhood During adolescence, boys and girls go through stages of cognitive, psychological and physical growth and development. For girls or women, one of the most...
There are stories of pregnant women forcefully delivering pre-maturely in order to sit an exam The Health Ministry has suspended a regulation barring pregnant students of Nursing Training colleges...
The deputy Minister of Health, Tina Mensah, has assured the pregnant nurses who spoke against decision to bar them from taking their exams due to their conditions will not be victimised. The Nursing...
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has ordered principals of nursing schools to allow pregnant students and nursing mothers to write examinations. Over the last month, principals of two midwifery...
A total of 18,441 adolescents got pregnant representing 11.4% of all pregnancies last year 2016 A total of 18,441 adolescents got pregnant representing 11.4% of all pregnancies last year 2016, the...
Kumasi, May 22, GNA – Teenage pregnancy is on a downward trend in the Ashanti Region as the various interventions and intense public education campaign begin to show positive results. A total of...
Education stakeholders have expressed concern about the high rate of teenage pregnancy in the Central Tongu District of the Volta Region, describing it as alarming. The situation has led to several...
Why Midwifery schools punish female students for being pregnant? File photo: A pregnant student of the Gushiegu Midwifery School was sacked from writing exam. As a journalist, every year when the...
The Upper East Region has made remarkable improvement in the implementation of the Mother-Baby Friendly Health Facility Initiative (MBFHFI) in the Upper East, according to UNICEF’s programme...
Marking this year’s Mother’s Day celebrations, female employees of Voltic (GH) Limited (Voltic) inspired both teenage mothers and expectant mothers to dream again and become symbol of hope for...
On the occasion of Mother’s Day, the second Deputy Minority Whip, Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe Ghansah has asked Ghanaians to fight against factors that are militating against women in the country. She...
