Category Archives: Health

Gallery

Video on Teen Pregnancy in Salone

Posted on January 12, 2014

Mama Salone just discovered this video by government of Sierra Leone and UNFPA on the launching of their effort to address the teen pregnancy problem. It is a great start but more need to be done to deal with the … Continue reading →

2 Comments

Gallery

DOUBLE VICTIMIZATION OF RAPE VICTIM BY MALE CONTROLED MEDIA IN SIERRA LEONE

Posted on October 5, 2013

After enduring the horrors of a brutal rape, allegedly, by none other than the Deputy Minister of Education, the 24-year old University of Sierra Leone student is currently enduring the all-common bombardment of harassment and continued victimization faced by rape … Continue reading →

2 Comments

Gallery

Female University Student Allegedly Raped by Deputy Minister of Education

Posted on September 24, 2013

For days we have been reading, with horror and disgust, about the alleged rape of a 24-year old female engineering student of University of Sierra Leone (Fourah Bay College) by the Sierra Leone Deputy Minister of Education. We have learned from newspaper … Continue reading →

3 Comments

Gallery

Agenda for Change: What’s in it for Salone Women?

Posted on February 4, 2013

We were encouraged to see that President Koroma dedicated two paragraphs under the heading: Empowering Women toward the end of his speech for the opening of Parliament in December 2012. With nothing else in recent history to give women of … Continue reading →

Leave a comment

Gallery

ATTENTION: HEART DISEASE is still NUMBER ONE Killer of Women

Posted on January 29, 2013

This gallery contains 1 photos.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Cardiovascular disease (Heart Disease) is the leading killer of women in America, accounting for over one-third of all deaths. That’s more than the combined death rates from breast, ovarian, and … Continue reading →

Leave a comment

Gallery

WORLD AIDS DAY

Posted on December 2, 2012

This gallery contains 1 photos.

Today, December 1, 2012  is World Aids Day! For African girls and women, the narrative does not change from year to year: poverty, lack of education, gender inequality, etc., are all factors that increase their chances of being exposed to … Continue reading →

Leave a comment

Gallery

Ina May Gaskin on Rising U.S. Maternal Mortality Rate, Midwifery and Home Births

Posted on March 28, 2012

Ina May Gaskin, the founder and director of the Farm Midwifery Center in Tennessee. She is the winner of the 2011 Right Livelihood Award. She is the author of Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth and, most recently, Birth Matters: A … Continue reading →

Leave a comment

Gallery

Screening for Cervical Cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Posted on March 16, 2012

Screening for Cervical Cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement.

Leave a comment

Gallery

National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

Posted on March 10, 2012

This gallery contains 1 photos.

National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is a nationwide observance coordinated by the Office on Women’s Health (OWH), within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Its goal is … Continue reading →

Leave a comment