The First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo’s Mothers’ Day message highlighted the strides left to be made in order to reduce child and maternal mortality to acceptable levels in Ghana. Mrs. Akufo-Addo...
More needs to be done to support struggling teenage mothers and kayayei mothers who have been largely neglected by society, the Alliance for Women in Media Africa, (AWMA) has said. The alliance in a...
Too early, too many Salamatu expresses her wish to have limited or spaced the number of children she had had “I work but the income I make is not enough to take care of my family,” says...
The Principal of the Gushegu Midwifery Training School who took what turned out to be controversial decision to stop a pregnant adult student Cecilia Awuni, from taking her exams now says she feels...
The Gushiegu Midwifery School has recalled Cecilia Awuni back to school to write her final examination a day after she was driven out of the examination hall because she is pregnant. Following Joy...
The Gushiegu Midwifery Training School in the Northern Region was thrown into a state of shock when a married student was prevented from taking part in the end-of-semester examination because she was...
Francis Xavier Sosu, lawyer for Cecilia Awuni, a student of the Gushegu Midwifery Training School in the Northern Region who was sacked from sitting for a paper at the school for being pregnant, has...
Mr James Awuni, husband of a midwifery student who was sacked from the Gushegu Midwifery Training School in Ghana's Northern Region for being pregnant, has said the dismissal was unfair and...
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has condemned the action of the principal of the Gushegu Midwifery Training School in the Northern Region who, on Wednesday, prevented a student from continuing with...
The discussion for an extension of maternity leave for nursing mothers is fast growing among Ghanaian workers as it appears to be gaining more momentum. Most companies in Ghana grant nursing mothers...
The Principal at the Gushegu Midwifery Training School in the Northern Region on Wednesday prevented a pregnant student from continuing with her examination because she is pregnant. According to the...
Australian Senator Larissa Waters has become the first politician to breastfeed in the nation's parliament. Ms Waters, from the left-wing Greens party, fed two-month-old daughter Alia Joy during a...
A Greens senator has made Australian political history by becoming the first person to breastfeed a baby in the nation's parliament. Larissa Waters returned to the upper house Senate for the first...
Efua Dorkenoo’s campaign against female genital mutilation, an unfinished business A SPECIAL NOTE: In New York, this author sat in a class with a Guinean/Senegalese/Sierra Leonean young lady who...
A group of 500 Health Professionals are expected to picket at the Health ministry today over delays in posting them. According to the Coalition, comprising of Health Professionals from the College of...
Female genital mutilation is truly a controversial subject and an abhorrent practice We continue from Part 1 (Note: In New York, this author sat in a class with a Guinean/Senegalese/Sierra Leonean...
The campaign to bring down teen sex and teen pregnancy has been scaled up in the Ashanti Region with the training of more young people for reproductive health advocacy. This is being done under the...
The First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has launched a fund-raising event to mobilise 10 million Ghana cedis to build a bigger maternity block for the Okomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH). Under...
The principal of Kpembe Nursing and Midwifery Training College in the East Gonja District of the Northern Region Hajia Shirley Issah has admonished students of the school to work hard to achieve more...
The campaign to bring down teen sex and teen pregnancy has been scaled up in the Ashanti Region with the training of more young people for reproductive health advocacy. This is being done under the...
