Lagos, Nigeria(PANA) - The International Planned Parenthood Africa Region (IPPFAR) has signed a working agreement with the Organisation of African First Ladies against HIV/AIDS (OAFLA) to address reproductive and sexual health, including family planning, prevention of HIV/ AIDS, maternal mortality as well as morbidity on the continent. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has called on the Committee on the Status of Women (CSW), a UN body currently meeting in New York, under the theme "Eliminating violence against women", to ensure that countries are protecting and advancing the rights of women and girls. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ensuring availability of family planning services and their acceptability to every woman, man and to young people, would improve the health of mothers and children in Africa, besides saving health care systems unnecessary expenditure, according to Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) Wednesday announced it will release, during its 60th Anniversary celebrations which started in South Africa Wednesday, the results of a major survey into young people’s attitudes to sex across four African countries. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) will Wednesday in Johannesburg, South Africa, kick-start a series of activities, including a Gala night, to mark its 60th anniversary, the Federation said in a statement made available to PANA here Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Making voluntary family planning available to everyone in developing countries would reduce costs for maternal and newborn health care by US$ 11.3 billion annually, according to The State of World Population 2012, published Wednesday by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday committed to fast-tracking its assessment of new and existing quality contraceptives so that more women in low- and middle-income countries can obtain and use a broader range of safe and effective contraceptive products. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Twenty media practitioners from the print, electronic and online media Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- A five-member delegation from the NGO International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has praised its affiliate Planned Parenthood Association of Sierra Leone (PPASL) for meeting 60 out of 65 standards set by the IPPF for all member associations. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Norlevo, an emergency contraceptive pill, will be available in at least five French-speaking African countries from January 2003, it was announced here Wednesday. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The Planned Parenthood Association of Zambia (PPAZ), has lost substantial financial support from the US, over the suspicion that the parent body, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), supports abortion. Full text...