The wife to Kenyan Prime Minister, Ida Odinga, has called on all nations to boost the nutritional needs of their populations, especially that of mothers and infants, as a strategy of achieving sustainable development.
AT least 30,000 children are born with HIV in Uganda every year, the AIDS control programme manager in the health ministry, Dr. Zainab Akol, has said.
The growth of cellphone use, particularly in the developing world, is providing health experts with a new channel of communication to provide family planning information.
KENYA'S fertility rate is on a downward trend, with women choosing not to give birth and instead opt for increased use of contraceptives, a demographic health survey report released last week by the Ministry of Planning and National Development, indicates.
Poor health facilities and poverty have been blamed for the high rate of maternal mortality in Africa.
Barclays Bank partnered with Virika Hospital to sponsor nutrition education among pregnant women who are HIV-positive.
THAT Uganda loses 16 mothers to pregnancy and childbirth everyday is as strange as it is true. To put facts into perspective, this is an equivalent of losing a commuter taxi full of expectant mothers everyday.
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.
First Lady, Hajiya Turai Yara'Adua, has called on policy makers to focus on issues that would reduce child and maternal mortality rate in the country.
A decline in fertility rate among Ugandan women over the next 30 years can help slow the country's fast growing population, a medical doctor has said.
UGANDA is among the nine developing countries in Africa and Asia that will benefit from a $12m (over sh21b) family planning and women's reproductive health project.
THE shortage of contraceptives essential to family planning is responsible for their poor use, a senior official in the health ministry has said.
The First Lady, Hajiya Turai Yar 'Adua, has embarked on an advocacy visit to improve maternal and child survival in the country.
GOVERNMENTS have been urged to embrace community-based approaches to promote modern contraception.
When a woman is expecting a baby it is supposed to be a blissful and delightful experience, but for many the magic they feel at bringing a little one into the world, quickly turns into a nightmare as they struggle to cope with the changes that come along with motherhood.
