Mr John Eliasu Mahama, Programmes Officer for Alliance For Reproductive Health Rights (ARHR), an NGO has stressed the need for integration of HIV/AIDS services and Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) activities for the effective and efficient utilisation of resources provided by Global Fund Proposal for Ghana.
He said such integration would also provide clients with a holistic [...]
The government has launched a call centre — first of its kind in the country — where people can anonymously put queries on reproductive health, sexual diseases and abortion to get answers from trained executives and doctors.
It will provide proper health information, particularly to women, who have hardly any access to it in vast stretches [...]
IN SPITE OF scientific and medical advances in recent years, the AIDS pandemic remains the greatest public health crisis of our time. Each day 6,000 people die of AIDS and there are 7,000 new infections. These statistics are difficult to comprehend until you see the faces of those most often affected - young women, between [...]
Research supports that what you eat and drink during pregnancy can influence not only the health of the pregnancy but also the future health of the baby. For instance, moms who eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes and nuts and consume a low to moderate amount of dairy products, eggs [...]
John Gillebaud, a leading academic on birth control, reproductive health and population issues, told a conference in Canberra Friday that unprotected sex leading to unwanted pregnancies is the greatest threat to mankind.
Every single week a new city of 1.7 million could be created, and the current global population growth is unsustainable, he said by videolink [...]
A highly anticipated international study of an anti-HIV microbicide, involving more than 6,200 women in South Africa and funded in part by $20 million from the Bill %26 Melinda Gates Foundation, has failed to demonstrate it can protect women from the AIDS virus.
“Carraguard was shown to be safe but not effective at preventing HIV transmission,” [...]
