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Nigeria: You Are Not Alone – How Women Find Strength After Childbirth

May 13, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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Editor’s Picks, Health & Wellness, Special Features, West Africa, Women’s Health

Midwives in Sudan work to ensure that every childbirth is safe (file photo). Womi sat on the edge of the hospital bed, her newborn nestled beside her, tears quietly streaming down her face, not from pain or joy, but from an overwhelming wave of exhaustion, fear, and isolation. Despite the flood of congratulatory messages in…

One in Four Female Genital Mutilation Cases Now Carried Out By Health Workers

May 9, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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Editor’s Picks, Education, Advocacy & Careers, Health & Wellness, Social Justice

A blade used to perform female genital mutilation. Female genital mutilation (FGM) is becoming less common worldwide, but when it does occur, it is increasingly performed by professional healthcare workers, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday. While the health sector worldwide plays a key role in stopping the abusive practice of FGM…

WOMEN CRUSH ON FORSHESAFRICA.ORG

May 9, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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Editor’s Picks

Forshesafrica seeks to focus its lens on women making strives in all areas in the professional field. Women are breaking boundaries and rubbing shoulders with their male opponents in the various professional fields. Here are just a few African women leaders among many, many others, who inspire us as women with substance. Unity Dow Unity…

Pregnancy trial to prevent anaemia launched

May 9, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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Editor’s Picks, Fitness & Nutrition, Health & Wellness, Women’s Health

Researchers are hoping a new treatment for pregnant women could help reduce the risk of stillbirth. Figures from a trial being led by NHS Blood and Transplant and the University of Oxford show one in three expectant mothers will develop anaemia. It is a condition where the blood produces a lower-than-normal amount of red blood…

African women at higher risk of pre-eclampsia – a dangerous pregnancy complication

May 8, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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Editor’s Picks, Health & Wellness, Women’s Health

Research indicates that pre-eclampsia has a genetic basis. African women are at greater risk than other population groups. Nurse checking a pregnant woman at Mukujju clinic, Tororo, Uganda. Jonathan Torgovnik for The Hewlett Foundation/Reportage by Getty Images Pre-eclampsia is a danger to pregnant women. It’s a complication characterised by high blood pressure and organ damage, arising…

In Kenya, girls are sold into marriage to stave off starvation from drought

May 8, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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East Africa, Education, Advocacy & Careers, Food, Regional News, Women’s Health

Women take donkeys laden with jerry cans to a community water point in Kambinye, Kenya [Fredrik Lerneryd/Oxfam]

Kenya faces surge in gender-based violence: over 7,000 cases in a year

May 1, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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Gender Equality, Social Justice, Women’s Health

A protester shouts as she holds a placard during a march against the rising cases of femicide, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya is facing an alarming surge in gender-based violence, with over 7,100 cases reported since September 2023, including 100 documented murders of women since August last year, according to government records. Among the survivors…

Understanding PCOS: The Silent Epidemic Affecting Women Worldwide

April 17, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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Others

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a hormonal condition that is characterized by the dysfunction in the hormones that regulate the menstrual cycle affecting at least 7% of adult women. It is also known as hyperandrogenic anovulation (HA) or Stein–Leventhal syndrome. Although PCOS can occur at any age, this disorder affects women of reproductive age and…

Sierra Leone declared an emergency over a powerful synthetic drug but women were left behind

April 9, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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Gender Equality, Health & Wellness, Women’s Health

Zainab Sakoteh sits in the Kingtom landfill in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thursday, March 13, 2025, a place she frequents to meet the cartel that provide her with Kush. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly) At a vast landfill in Sierra Leone‘s capital of Freetown, smoke billows over decades of decomposing waste. Zainab sits there, squinting through the soot. It…

Aid cuts could have ‘pandemic-like effects’ on maternal deaths, WHO warns

April 9, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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Women’s Health

Loss of funding could undo progress in reducing deaths in pregnancy and childbirth, especially in war zones, says UN. A pregnant refugee, who is bleeding, is taken to a hospital in Bangassou, DRC. Maternal deaths are nearly 35 times more likely in poorer countries than rich ones. Photograph: Alexis Huguet/MSF More women risk dying in pregnancy…

Nigeria: You Are Not Alone – How Women Find Strength After Childbirth

WOMEN CRUSH ON FORSHESAFRICA.ORG

Pregnancy trial to prevent anaemia launched

African women at higher risk of pre-eclampsia – a dangerous pregnancy complication

In Kenya, girls are sold into marriage to stave off starvation from drought

Understanding PCOS: The Silent Epidemic Affecting Women Worldwide

Sierra Leone declared an emergency over a powerful synthetic drug but women were left behind

Aid cuts could have ‘pandemic-like effects’ on maternal deaths, WHO warns

Ending Period Poverty: How Pad Banks Empower Ghanaian Girls

UNFPA, Unicef, GOL Launch School-Based Menstrual Pad Banks in Liberia

From family farm to climate tech: How one Kenyan woman is helping farmers outsmart drought

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