According to the Centre for the Study of Adolescence, Nyanza has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the country, and as teacher-student relationships are common in Nyanza province, extreme poverty appears to be the main reason why girls in the region become sexually active at the young

Ministry Of Health statistics put the number of Kenyan girls and women who have abortion every year at 300,000, and with abortion being illegal, so many of these take place in backstreet clinics with the International Planned Parenthood Federation saying unsafe abortion account for between 30 and

Medical services minister say abortion issues have been neglected for long and is appealing for more resources to educate women on dangers of unsafe abortions.

Dr Margaret Meme, a maternal health consultant notes with disappointment that pregnancy is not a disease yet it kills many women, just like malaria adding that many women are unable to access better maternal health services because their other basic rights are still violated.

Maternal health experts at a meeting organized by the African Population And Health Research Centre and a US organization notes that men’s attitude towards pregnancy is one of the causes of high maternal deaths, and are calling for male involvement to reduce what they term as ‘unneces

An initiative started 10 years ago by the Danish Government to support Kenya’s health sector gives maternal and child health programmes a Sh 7.3 billion boost to help reduce the number of women who die during childbirth and children who die before attaining age five.

A Kenyan Mobile health application has been nominated in the competition ‘Saving lives at Birth’ an initiative by the World Bank, Melinda and Bill Gates and USAid recognizing innovations across the world aimed at helping mothers deliver safely in hospitals and stands to win a $200 mil

US government funded trials and research on malaria at the Kenya Medical Research Institute and the Center for Disease Control in Siaya will reduce by half more than 4,000 children below the age of five who die each year of malaria attacks, says Health Ministers Anyang’ Nyong’o (Medic