Nigeria’s First Lady Urges Business Women to Help Create Awareness on HIV/AIDS

Nigeria’s First Lady Turai Yar’Adua has urged Business and Professional Women International (BPW) to assist in creating awareness on HIV and AIDS, amd cervical and breast cancer among women in Africa. Opening a conference of Africa regional congress...

Papua New Guinea Maternal Health in Crisis

Developed Pacific countries such as Australia should do more to help combat the “horrific” maternal health crisis in Papua New Guinea, a Greens statement has said. Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, said that PNG had the second highest maternal death...

Amnesty International’s Secretary General has Launched a Campaign to Reduce Maternal Deaths in Sierra Leone

On the eve of the world leaders meeting in New York to discuss increased funding for health care in developing countries, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Irene Khan has launched a campaign to reduce maternal deaths in Sierra Leone. The accompanying...

South Africa’s Minister of Water And Environmental Affairs has Urged African Leaders to Make Water a Priority

South Africa’s Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Ms Bulyelwa Sonjica, has urged African leaders to make water a priority in their development agenda to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in that sector. Sonjica told journalists...

More Than 140 Women in Nigeria Lose Their Lives Daily During Child Birth

The Chairman of Nigeria’s Kwara State House of Assembly Committee on Health, Mr Bisi Oloruntoba, has said that focus should be shifted to maternal health as no fewer than 144 pregnant women in Nigeria lost their lives daily during child birth. Oloruntoba...