The Upper West Region has recorded 28 maternal deaths from January to May this year, a figure it registered during the whole of 2012. The health authorities are entertaining fears…

Annually an estimated number of 750,000 teenagers between ages of 15 to 19 years become pregnant in Ghana with the central region recording about a 14,000 in 2012. Mr. Bright…

Pregnant women in Ghana who slept on their back (supine sleep) were at an increased risk of stillbirth compared to women who did not sleep on their back, according to…

Expectant mothers are to get their relatives to provide two pints of blood for them as reserve before the day of their delivery as part of measures to reduce maternal…

Dr Ronald Sowa, the Western Regional Coordinator for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), says there is high prevalence rate of sexually transmitted infections among Senior High School students in the Region….

A research conducted by the Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights (ARHR) and Mission of Hope International in the Bongo District, has revealed that whilst supervised deliveries particularly anti and post-natal have…

(PlusNews) – Kenya has made significant strides in boosting exclusive breastfeeding, even passing a new law banning the promotion of infant formula. Nevertheless, challenges to safe infant feeding – a…

Dr John Boakye Fordjour, a gynaecologist at the Brong-Ahafo Regional Hospital in Sunyani, on Tuesday expressed concern about the alarming rate of unsafe abortion by girls in the Region.     …