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Kaddy Manneh, a resident of Essau, North Bank Region, who delivered triplets at the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital in Banjul, is in need of assistance to raise her babies.
A UNIVERSITY student broke up with his girlfriend after learning she was cheating on him. It is then that he realised he could have contracted HIV, seeing that she was neither faithful nor did they use condoms.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released new recommendations on HIV treatment and prevention and for the first time recommended that HIV-positive mothers or their infants take antiretrovirals while breastfeeding to prevent HIV transmission.
THE Acting Chairman of Kwali Area Council, Mr. Danlami Saleh Yebu, Tuesday said his administration is carrying out free anti-natal care services for pregnant women in all health centres in the 10 wards of the council.
HIV positive mothers on antiretroviral drug can exclusively breast feed their babies for a period of six months without passing the virus to the children, the Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, Professor John Idoko has said.
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.
Barclays Bank partnered with Virika Hospital to sponsor nutrition education among pregnant women who are HIV-positive.
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 growth of cellphone use, particularly in the developing world, is providing health experts with a new channel of communication to provide family planning information.
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.
Poor health facilities and poverty have been blamed for the high rate of maternal mortality in Africa.
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.
In Uganda, induced abortion is permitted only when continuation of a pregnancy would endanger a woman's life. The country's major religions too, outlaw the practice. Because of this, it is often practiced in secret, with many women having to rely on practitioners who use dangerous methods under unsanitary conditions. An estimated illegal 300,000 abortions are said to occur annually in the country. ...
ABOUT 56% of all pregnancies in Uganda are unplanned due to lack of access to modern family planning methods.
FEDERAL government has been urged to adopt more effective treatment programmes to preserve women's lives and stop preventable deaths in the country.
THE First Lady, Janet Museveni, has urged men to support their wives in family planning and prevention of maternal and child mortality.
THE National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has said that cases of maternal mortality remains on the increase in the country, even as it announced a drastic reduction in infant mortality across the country.
The Minister of Health Designate, Dr Benjamin Kunbour, has assured Ghanaians that he will let maternal mortality become a thing of the past.
In as much as mother-to-child-Transmission (MTCT)of HIV is almost entirely preventable where services are available, infant feeding choices for the HIV-infected women remains one of the most contentious issues in efforts to prevent MTCT of HIV in resource poor countries like Nigeria.
Politicians, teachers and Catholic Church leaders are not amused: Married women in central Kenya do not want to have any more babies.
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