Racheal Abata

Oct 11, 2024 | awimnews.com | African queer women |Barakat Sanni |Nusaiba Ibrahim |Racheal Abata

For Immediate Release11  October, 2024. AWiM is delighted to announce the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, (UNESCO) as Partner for its 8th annual conference from ’5 – 6’ December, 2024, in the Senegalese Capital of Dakar. UNESCO would be joining Article 19 Senegal, the country host as one of the partners at the much–anticipated AWiM 2024 conference, with the theme, ‘Media and Sustainability’.

Oct 10, 2024 | awimnews.com | Barakat Sanni |Nusaiba Ibrahim |Racheal Abata |Marie-Therese Nanlong

HEADLINESCreating an African with high survival rate in Breast Cancer  October is breast cancer awareness month and it has been established by a research that. Every year breast cancer claims more than 650,000 lives worldwide. However, Survival rates have been recorded to be as high as 90% in high income countries. In sub-Saharan Africa the rate is less than 40%.

Oct 8, 2024 | awimnews.com | Melody Chikono |Barakat Sanni |Racheal Abata |Marie-Therese Nanlong

Childbirth is an important stage in pregnancy, and labour is its most crucial aspect. To prepare forthis life–changing event, women typically undergo medical and nesting preparations to ensure they are equipped before, during, and after delivery. According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, during labour, the uterus contracts continuously and with increasing force, facilitating cervical dilation and effacement (thinning). This enables the fetus topass through the birth canal.

Sep 28, 2024 | awimnews.com | Ugonna Agu |African queer women |Nusaiba Ibrahim |Racheal Abata

Photo Credit: TopSphere Media on Unsplash  “I told my husband that I wanted to do family planning, he said no, that he is scared. I just took the decision and did it by myself”. 32-year-old Mrs. Ezinne, who has been exposed to the benefits of family planning, did not let her husband’s disapproval hinder her from accessing the procedure after her fourth child.

Sep 27, 2024 | awimnews.com | African queer women |Nusaiba Ibrahim |Racheal Abata |Barakat Sanni

Anticipate these well researched investigative reports by female Journalists participating in African Women in Media’s ‘Reporting Violence Against Women and Girls’ project,’ supported by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism Anticipate!!! CAN OF WORMS: EXPOSING PERSISTENT ABUSE OF GIRLS WITH DISABILITIES IN OWO – Olufisoye Adenitan FAMILY PLANNING RIGHTS: INVESTIGATING OBSTACLES TO ACCESSING CONTRACEPTIVE CARE IN OWERRI – Ugonna Agu – RAISING THE ALARM: UNTOLD STORY OF SEXUAL...