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A three-decade law banning pregnant girls from attending school has been scrapped by MPs in Zanzibar. Under the ban, girls under 18 who became pregnant on the semi-autonomous Tanzanian islands had to drop out of school and could not return. Women's groups had been campaigning to abolish the ...
Read Story at BBC News (2006-02-01)
There is disquiet in southern Tanzania over an illness causing young primary school girls to faint. Last week the school was forced to close for three days after 18 students fainted in one day. Angry parents have protested to the school, accusing teachers of bewitching their children, ...
Read Story at BBC News (2004-05-13)
THE headmaster of Kibibi Secondary School has stopped a Senior Six student from sitting her final examinations because she got pregnant while in school. Fatuma Nansamba delivered in August after Hajji Mubiru had dismissed her from the school in July. The rationale for Mubiru’s decision is that the school ...
Read Story at The New Vision (2008-11-03)
Rejected by her family, Fatmata lives and works alone When Fatmata Kargbo became pregnant in her late teens she had only a vague idea of the risks of childbirth in Sierra Leone. In a country with the highest maternal mortality in the world - about ...
Read Story at BBC News (2005-01-04)
Rejected by her family, Fatmata lives and works alone When Fatmata Kargbo became pregnant in her late teens she had only a vague idea of the risks of childbirth in Sierra Leone. In a country with the highest maternal mortality in the world - about ...
Read Story at BBC News (2004-06-18)
SEVEN years ago, when she was in her teens, Livey van Wyk became pregnant and simultaneously discovered that she was HIV positive. Today, after a difficult emotional battle, she heads the Positive Support Services Trust (PSST) at Witvlei. Shortly after the birth of her son, who was HIV negative, she ...
Read Story at The Namibian (2010-06-10)
SEVEN years ago, when she was in her teens, Livey van Wyk became pregnant and simultaneously discovered that she was HIV positive. Today, after a difficult emotional battle, she heads the Positive Support Services Trust (PSST) at Witvlei. Shortly after the birth of her son, who was HIV negative, she ...
Read Story at The Namibian (2010-06-09)
Zimbabwe"s government has been forced to fend off charges that it is encouraging teen sex after deciding to grant parental leave to pregnant schoolgirls and soon-to-be dads. The education ministry of Zimbabwe"s power-sharing government last week announced that young girls who fall pregnant during the course of their studies ...
Read Story at IndependentOnline (2010-08-29)
Zimbabwe"s government has been forced to fend off charges that it is encouraging teen sex after deciding to grant parental leave to pregnant schoolgirls and soon-to-be dads. The education ministry of Zimbabwe"s power-sharing government last week announced that young girls who fall pregnant during the course of their studies ...
Read Story at IndependentOnline (2010-08-29)
High school girls who fall pregnant will no longer be expelled from their schools, the Swaziland Schools Headteachers Association resolved last week. The policy change overturns what has been standard practice since before independence, when Christian missionaries established schools in Swaziland."Expelling pregnant girls is inhumane, because in most cases they ...
Read Story at IRINNews (2004-06-21)
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