December 19, 2025
By Benard Worlali Awumee
Anyanui – A total of 187 adolescents from Anyanui, Atiteti, and Agbledomi in the Anloga District have benefited from sexual and reproductive health education and free screening for sexually transmitted infections.
The progamme aimed to improve awareness, promote positive behaviour and confirm STI-free health outcomes among participants.
Continued: https://gna.org.gh/2025/12/200-adolescents-receive-srh-education-sti-screening-in-anloga/
After commemorating International Human Rights Day on 10 December, a look at how Western-influenced right-wing movements are gaining traction in Africa and are using so-called traditional family values to undermine sexual and reproductive health rights and LGBTQIA+ rights.
By Sesona Buyeye and Duduetsang Mmeti
16 Dec 2025
Across the world, right-wing movements – often cloaked in the language of “moral and religious preservation” and “anti-wokeness” – are pushing back against progressive human rights advancing reproductive freedoms for women, girls and queer people.
Alarmingly, these movements are also gaining traction across parts of Africa, where significant strides have been made in embracing democracy, advancing constitutionalism and advocating non-racialism and reproductive freedoms in the post-colonial era.
13 March 2025
Centre for Solutions Journalism (Blantyre)
Centre for Solutions Journalism (CSJ) has described government's post-abortion care programme as 'life-saving and extremely important,' in ensuring that no single woman or girl suffers or dies due to pregnancy related-causes.
CSJ Executive Director Brian Ligomeka said while access to abortion services remain restricted, it was important to appreciate the success of Malawi's post-abortion care unit.
"While our wish is that no single woman or girl should suffer or die from the consequences of unsafe abortions through provision of abortion services, we need to appreciate some of the current interventions of the government," he said recently, on the sidelines of the training sessions.
Rollback of abortion rights post-Dobbs makes U.S. a global outlier.
by Rachel Crumpler
June 5, 2024
Since the Dobbs decision in June 2022, nearly half of states in the United States — including North Carolina — have curtailed access to abortion by implementing increased restrictions.
The significant rollback in abortion legality throughout much of the country puts the United States in sharp contrast to the global trend of loosening abortion laws and increasing protections for abortion rights.
Abortion stigma stemming from Brazilian law creates misinformation and delays in legal care, and retraumatizes survivors of sexual violence.
MAY 9, 2024
GARNET HENDERSON
On Easter Day in 2023, a woman named Tatiana went to buy Easter eggs for her two daughters. It was something her husband used to do, but he had recently died. So she went herself, after a late shift at a hospital on the outskirts of São Paulo, where she works as a cleaner.
As she left the grocery store near her home, a man armed with a gun drove up and grabbed Tatiana. He threw her into his car and raped her, strangling her and leaving bruises all over her body.
Continued: https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/05/09/under-brazils-abortion-ban-lack-of-information-kills/
Regardless of the law, women can now access their own safe and effective abortion procedures in the form of these pills.
November 10, 2023
After Ohio’s recent vote to enshrine the right to have an abortion into the state’s constitution, host Robert Scheer dives deeper into one of the underappreciated and underreported aspects of the fight for abortion rights on this episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast.
Sydney Calkin, a senior lecturer in the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London, discusses her newest book, “Abortion Pills Go Global: Reproductive Freedom Across Borders,” and breaks down the myths and misconceptions about one of the biggest tools for bringing women’s reproductive rights to the forefront.
Continued: https://scheerpost.com/2023/11/10/abortion-pills-go-global/
By Tamara Kay and Susan Ostermann, Chicago Tribune
Dec 05, 2022
Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that abortion policy should be decided at the state level, a number of high-profile abortion issues have appeared on state ballots. In each of these cases — even in conservative states — voters have chosen to support abortion rights. With voters increasingly being asked to make abortion policy, it is critical that they understand the facts in order to make informed decisions.
During the last 50 years, lies and intentional misinformation have dictated abortion health policy in the U.S. Abortion has been demonized and characterized by utter falsities; it has gone under the radar for far too long.
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Forty-nine (49) institutional maternal deaths were recorded between January and May this year in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
The current rate paints a gloomy forecast of a sharp rise this year defeating gains made in a gradual reduction of the menace.
Youths call for consultation on abortion
Sept 13, 2017
Mtella' Settembru
In Malta, a group of nine youths presented a resolution at the National Youth Parliament titled "Sexual health and reproduction in Malta", that calls for abortion to be openly discussed and not treated as taboo. Many young women travel to other nearby countries to have abortions, which may be illegal and unsafe.
Continued at source: TVM: https://www.tvm.com.mt/en/news/mill-parlament-tazyouths-call-for-consultation-on-abortion-zghazagh-sejha-ghal-konsultazzjoni-dwar-l-abort/
Okun Oliech
Mon 24th Oct 2016, Standard Media
In 2012, the Google Zeitgeist Report ranked abortion as top on the list of the subjects Kenyans search for in the ‘How To’ category. This clearly showed that many young girls and women were looking for information on how to abort and that abortion is real in Kenya.
According to the ministry of health, about 310,000 abortions occur every year in Kenya. 22,000 women are admitted each year due to unsafe abortion related complications and 2,600 of these eventually die. Out of the women admitted, 12% are usually older than 34years, 40% are between the ages of 25 and 34 years while 16% are adolescents and teenagers.
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Source: Standard Media
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