Lameck Masina for VOA – WNN Breaking (WNN/UN) Blantyre, MALAWI, EASTERN AFRICA: Malawi and the United Nations are stepping up efforts to prevent obstetric fistula cases and to help more women already suffering with the condition. Considered a condition born of poverty, obstetric fistula can occur in women during prolonged and difficult child birth or […]
Agnes Odhiambo and Gauri Van Gulik – IPS – Wednesday, 22 May 2013 (originally published 19 May) NAIROBI , May 19 2013 (IPS) – Victoria J. married in 2009 at age 14, and became pregnant shortly after. “I started labour in the morning on a Friday …. The nurse kept checking and saying I would […]
Abjata Khalif – WNN Features (WNN) Nairobi, KENYA, EASTERN AFRICA: Sankuri village in the eastern Kenya region near the Indian Ocean is 300 kilometres (186 miles) from the nearest larger capital town of the province in Garissa. Known as a remote area that has poor phone communications with roads that are considered too rough and […]
Sunday Elijah – WNN Improve It (WNN/VOA) Kaduna, NIGERIA, AFRICA: For many women in Nigeria, a country with one of the highest maternal death rates in the world, the prospect of giving birth can be scary. According to the U.N. children’s organization, UNICEF, more than 150 women die every day in pregnancy-related cases in Nigeria, […]
Sally Chiwama – WNN Breaking (WNN) Maputo, MOZAMBIQUE: An International expert on Women’s and Health Specialist has spoken out on the topic in the number of deaths occurring worldwide from maternal mortality. “It is a human rights violation because most countries in the world had signed to the United Nations declaration on the right to […]
Sabine Clappaert – WNN Features (WNN) Deauville, FRANCE : “I came here to stand up for the voiceless mothers of Africa,” says thirty-one-year-old Ugandan nurse midwife and woman’s advocate Esther Madudu at Global Meeting 2011 of the Women’s Forum for Economy and Society in Deauville, France. She begins with murmured conversations dying down to hear […]
Women News Network – WNN MDG stories LILONGWE, MALAWI: A ban on traditional birth assistants (TBAs), which has been in place since 2007, was effectively lifted by Malawi’s president, Bingu wa Mutharika, on his return from the (September 2010) UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals in New York. The lifting of the 2007 ban […]
