Nigeria – COSWOHI, with AmplifyChange, trains health workers on stigma-free post abortion care

Sade Oguntola
December 18, 2025
With support from Amplify Change, the Committed Soul Women Health Advocacy Africa Initiative (COSWOHI) has trained medical professionals from five local governments in post-abortion care (PAC) and stigma-free care services in an attempt to reduce maternal mortality in Oyo State.

Abidakun Emmanuel, the communication officer for COSWOHI, speaking at the training in Ibadan, said healthcare workers need skills and knowledge to deliver confidential, respectful, non-judgemental and adolescent-sensitive PAC services without stigma.

Continued: https://tribuneonlineng.com/coswohi-with-amplifychange-trains-health-workers-on-stigma-free-post-abortion-care/

18.12.2025

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Abidakun Emmanuel

Amplify Change

Committed Soul Women Health Advocacy Africa Initiative

Malawi – Youths urged to sensitise people on SRHR, unsafe abortion

Oct 18, 2024
Raphael Likaka

Her Liberty and Girls Activist Youth Organisation (GAYO) have equipped youths from various youth clubs at Senior Chief Malemia’s area in Zomba with information to sensitise fellow youths on issues to do with Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) and unsafe abortion.

The two organisations are currently implementing a project whose objective is to promote SRHR and discourage unsafe abortion in the area of Senior Chief Malemia in Zomba with financial assistance from Amplify Change, an organisation from the United Kingdom.

Continued: https://malawi24.com/2024/10/18/youths-urged-to-sensitise-people-on-srhr-unsafe-abortion/

Malawi – GAYO, Her Liberty engages media on unsafe abortions among young women

Sep 30, 2024
Raphael Likaka

Girls Activist Youth Organisation (GAYO) and Her Liberty say the media has a crucial role in reporting on challenges young women face after opting for unsafe abortion. The two organisations made the call during a day-long media orientation on unsafe abortion reporting among young women.

Her Liberty Project Manager, Kattie Mikwala, said many young women die due to unsafe abortions while some are leaving with serious problems following safe abortion. She observed that some young women take overdose drugs to terminate pregnancy while others use herbs, thereby resulting in serious complications to the extent of removing their uterus.

Continued: https://malawi24.com/2024/09/30/gayo-her-liberty-engages-media-on-unsafe-abortions-among-young-women/

30.09.2024

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Nigeria – WARDC engages religious, traditional leaders on preventable maternal deaths

By Ijeoma Thomas-Odia
July 21, 2024

To enhance the voices of women in Lagos to lead advocacy and demand accountability on preventable maternal deaths as well as adequate policies to end violence against women and girls, Women Advocates Research and Documentation Center (WARDC), held a high-level meeting with religious and traditional leaders to address these concerns.

The two-day meeting held in Lagos with the support of Amplify Change is currently implementing Project Enhance focused on improving the sexual and reproductive health of women following the Lagos State Guidelines on Safe Termination of Pregnancy for Legal Indications.

Continued: https://guardian.ng/wardc-engages-religious-traditional-leaders-on-preventable-maternal-deaths/#google_vignette

Malawi – Media asked to question Govt why Termination of Pregnancy Bill is not being tabled in Parliament

March 21, 2024
Watipaso Mzungu JNR

A consortium of civil society organizations (CSOs) implementing Breaking the Barriers Project has made an impassionate appeal to the media in the country to question why, up to now, government is reluctant to table the Termination of Pregnancy Bill in Parliament.

Continued: https://www.nyasatimes.com/media-asked-to-question-govt-why-termination-of-pregnancy-bill-is-not-being-tabled-in-parliament/

Stakeholders move to lift ban on safe abortion guidelines in Lagos

By Josephine Agbonkhese
Nov 21, 2023

Civil society leaders, stakeholders and medical experts have embarked on a move to develop a roadmap for an advocacy campaign geared towards lifting the suspension on guidelines for safe termination of pregnancy in Lagos State.

This was the crux of a two-day meeting organised in Lagos by the Women Advocates Research & Documentation Centre, WARDC, with support from AmplifyChange, as part of its ongoing Project Enhance initiative aimed at ‘Enhancing Women’s Voices to Demand Accountability on Safe Abortion and Preventable Maternal Deaths in Lagos’.

Continued: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/11/stakeholders-move-to-lift-ban-on-safe-abortion-guidelines-in-lagos/

21.11.2023

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Amplify Change

Bose Ironsi

Child Protection Network

Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi

maternal mortality

Ronke Oyelakin

Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre

Ghana – GHS urged to make safe abortion services readily available

GHS urged to make safe abortion services readily available
Feb 13, 2019

Mr Raphael Godlove Ahenu, the Chief Executive Officer of Global Media Foundation (GLOMEF), a human rights advocacy media Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), has called on the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to make safe abortion services available.

He said because safe abortion and other sexually reproductive services were not readily available in communities’ unreported cases of unsafe abortion and sexually transmitted infections among adolescents were remained high.

Continued: https://www.businessghana.com/site/news/general/181896/GHS-urged-to-make-safe-abortion-services-readily-available

Ghana – The battle of values: Health practitioners make medical decisions based on personal values

The battle of values: Health practitioners make medical decisions based on personal values

By Mathias Aboba
Dec 23, 2018

Women seeking legal abortion care including life-threatening complications due to abortion (post-abortion complication) or after suffering miscarriage may be denied care by some health service providers in Ghana due to their religious or moral beliefs, a research finding has revealed.

According to the study, which looked at Conscience-based Objection to abortion care or Conscientious Objection to abortion (CO) conducted in two regions in Ghana Volta and Eastern Regions by reproductive rights advocacy network, Global Doctors for Choice Ghana, a relatively high number of doctors, midwives, nurses and physician assistants who have received training in comprehensive abortion care will rather exercise their right to refuse to provide legal abortion services to women in need due to their religious or morale beliefs.

Continued: https://www.newsghana.com.gh/the-battle-of-values-health-practitioners-make-medical-decisions-based-on-personal-values/

Ghana: Twenty years of contraception use limit family size to two children – NGO

Twenty years of contraception use limit family size to two children - NGO

Monday 18th September, 2017
By Dennis Peprah, GNA

Atebubu (B/A), Sept. 18, GNA – An average woman must use effective contraception for at least 20 years to limit her family size to two children and 16 years to four children.

Mr. Richard Kuunaah, the Executive Director of GHANECare, a non-governmental organization working to promote and protect the rights of women and children has said.

In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on a project the NGO was implementing in the Atebubu-Amantin District of the Brong-Ahafo Region, Mr. Kuunaah said two-thirds of unintended pregnancies in developing countries including Ghana occurred among women who were not using any method of contraception.

Continued at source: http://www.ghananewsagency.org/health/twenty-years-of-contraception-use-limit-family-size-to-two-children-ngo--122417

18.09.2017