Women's health: Where is the deal for Uganda's women?
10 Mar 2010
Over 1.4 million women in Uganda would like to delay pregnancy, space children or stop child bearing, but do not have access to contraceptive methods.
US: Utah Governor Signs Controversial Law Charging Women and Girls With Murder for Miscarriages
10 Mar 2010
Critics are worried the law will open up a Pandora's box of unintended legal consequences.
Britain sends South Africa 42m condoms in HIV fight before World Cup
10 Mar 2010
Host nation has one-in-five rate of HIV among adults. Plea for an extra billion condoms before football fans descend.
In Haiti, collapsed AIDS clinics fret over new challenges
10 Mar 2010
The 12 January earthquake that shattered the lives of Haitians and destroyed more than half of the AIDS clinics in Port-au-Prince threatened to reverse progress in HIV.
Barbados: Growing acceptance of persons with disabilities
10 Mar 2010
President of the Barbados Council for the Disabled, says there is growing acceptance of persons with disabilities in the society. He alluded to a sexual reproductive health programme...
Indian women may hold a third of legislature seats
08 Mar 2010
India's government will present a bill aimed at empowering the nation's often-marginalized women by reserving one-third of legislative seats for them.
Philippines: Bishops claim condoms are porous, dare Cabral to debate
08 Mar 2010
Catholic bishops have challenged the Health Secretary to a debate on the effectiveness of condoms in preventing the spread of disease and HIV.
Ireland: Call to relax abortion laws after poll result
08 Mar 2010
The Government has been urged to relax abortion laws after a poll showed more than three-quarters of the population favour such a move.
Ghana: Medic calls for free condoms for sexually active women
08 Mar 2010
A gynaecologist at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital has advocated free distribution of contraceptives to women in sexually active stage to help reduce maternal mortality.
Row as anti-abortionists target African Americans with US racist history
08 Mar 2010
A Georgia campaign is accused of drawing parellels between abortion and slavery and using the phrase 'womb lynchings'.
The worldwide war on baby girls; Gendercide
08 Mar 2010
Technology, declining fertility and ancient prejudice are combining to unbalance societies.
Abortion laws kill Kenyan schoolgirls
05 Mar 2010
Unsafe abortion claims the lives of thousands of Kenyan women each year. Their deaths are entirely and easily preventable. Yet the Kenyan government has done little to address the problem.
Extra small condoms for 12 year-old boys go on sale in Switzerland
05 Mar 2010
Called the Hotshot, the condom has been produced after government research showed 12 to14-year-olds did not use sufficient protection when having sex.
Study Finds No Consensus in Definitions of 'Had Sex'
05 Mar 2010
A new study from the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University found that no uniform consensus existed when a representative sample of 18- to 96-year-olds was asked what the term meant to them.
'Instant' HIV test launched in UK
03 Mar 2010
UK pharmacy chain Superdrug is launching an HIV test which gives results in just 60 seconds from a tiny fingertip blood sample.
Mullahs Help Promote Birth Control in Afghanistan
03 Mar 2010
Some mullahs in Afghanistan are distributing condoms. Health experts say contraception is starting to catch on in a country with the world's second highest maternal death rate.
British women 'in denial' over growing HIV risk
01 Mar 2010
Unprotected heterosexual sex is not seen as a danger to health, survey finds.
Nicaragua Total Abortion Ban Challenged in Case of Cancer Patient
01 Mar 2010
Managua – a request to allow a Nicaraguan woman suffering from cancer to end her pregnancy so she can receive life-saving medical treatment is posing a challenge to the nation’s strict ban on aborti...
Teen motherhood is not all bad, says Hilary Mantel
01 Mar 2010
Society is structured round men's development, says Mantel. It may be better for women to have children earlier.
India to showcase gender uplift schemes at UN meeting
01 Mar 2010
India will pitch itself as a nation working towards gender empowerment through flagship schemes at a special session of the United Nations General Assembly between March 1-12.