Few dispute that pregnant women and their babies should get the best healthcare possible.
As part of the Federal Government's efforts to reverse the ugly trend in the maternal and child health, not less than 64 midwives have been deployed to four area councils in FCT.
A new health report on reproductive health in Mbale District has revealed that 59 per cent of expectant mothers deliver at home.
EVERY pregnant woman has one foot in the grave," goes an African adage. This may sound crude today but it is the reality for many rural poverty-stricken women like Consolata Kebikali, 38. She has survived death nine times during childbirth, but has traded her luck for four of the babies she was trying to give life.
Preliminary data from the 2008/2009 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS), which shows that the fertility rate has declined from 4.9 births per woman in 2003 to 4.6 births today, seems to show progress in managing its population growth.
Chairman of the Kano State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Hajiya Maryam Yola, has urged the state chapter of the Nigerian Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) to spearhead the publicity and enlightenment campaign on girl-child education in the state.
THE Government has secured a $600m (about sh1.2b) loan from the World Bank to renovate health centres countrywide, the Minister of Health, Dr. Stephen Mallinga, has said.
Legislators have called on the government for swift action to reduce the number of women who die during pregnancy and childbirth. At least 435 of every 100,000 women die in child birth or pregnancy related complications.
THE NATIONAL Youth Leadership Forum-Ghana (NYLF-G), a youth advocacy group in the country, has expressed its disgust at the unfolding events surrounding the saga involving the proprietor of the Great Lamptey Mills Institute, Mr. Enoch Nii Lamptey Mills, and the 16 year old, which he is alleged to have impregnated and forcibly married.
Top government officials were in the Oshana region this week to officially launch a number of birth registration points at various hospitals in the four northern regions.
The Ministry of Education is expected to start implementing a policy aimed at reducing the number of learners who leave school because of pregnancies after it was approved by Cabinet this week.
CABINET approved an Education Sector Policy for the Prevention and Management of Learner Pregnancy during its latest meeting last month.
Usually, childbirth is synonymous with joy in every home, but the reverse seems to be the case for the Olayinka family, who recently had a set of quadruplets, a girl and three boys.
On October 30, Uganda marked Safe Motherhood Day under the theme "Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancies." According to the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey 2006, Uganda's maternal mortality rate stands at 435 per every 100,000 live births, most of which results from frequent unintended pregnancies. Low contraceptive has been highlighted as one of the key factors contributing to the high ...
A PUPIL in western Uganda yesterday developed labour pains and gave birth to a bouncing baby moments after the social studies examination got underway.
