UK Tackles Higher Maternal Mortality Rates For Black Mothers
The British government committed on Wednesday to tackling disparities in maternal mortality rates, saying it was “completely unacceptable” that pregnancy and birth were riskier for women from ethnic minorities than for white women. Maternal deaths in Britain occur in fewer than 1 in 10,000 pregnancies, official data shows. From 2015 to 2017, 209 mothers died […]
Gynecologists Launch Urgent Appeal To Govt Over Poor Maternal Care State
The Zimbabwe Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Tuesday issued a sombre plea to the government to urgently attend to the state of hospitals as expecting mothers are losing their babies at an alarming rate. The association said the situation in hospitals is beyond dire and the government needs to intervene quickly before more lives are […]
Pregnancy In Nairobi Is Dangerous And Exhausting
In 2013, Debra Adhiambo, 35, then four weeks pregnant, booked an appointment with a popular gynaecologist based at one of the private hospitals in Nairobi. He had been highly recommended by several friends, and since she wanted to get the best treatment, she decided to consult him. “A couple of months before this, I had […]
Policing Pregnant Women Won’t Stop Maternal Deaths
For women in East Africa, the only legal right to abortion rests on a 1938 precedent from England that says a doctor can perform one if it saves a woman’s life. For 80 years, East African nations, including Kenya and Uganda, have relied on this colonial ruling, which is no longer the law of the […]
Antenatal Care Will Help Nigeria Curb High Infant And Maternal Mortality
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists have called for increased attendance to Antenatal care by pregnant women to reduce the high rate of infant and maternal mortality in the country. The experts made the call at a presentation of four books entitled ‘ ‘Step by Step Approach to Obstetrics and Gynaecological Ultrasonography’, ‘Bullet Point Answers to Exam Questions […]
Rwanda: Rapid SMS Saving Mothers In Nyabihu
Before the advent of Rapid Short Message Service, she used SMS only to reach family and friends, little did she know that the same texting application would save lives of many babies. Teredia Uwihoreye, a Community Health Worker (CHW) from Rugero Sector in Nyabihu District, is part of the 45,000 CHWs across Rwanda that have […]
Kenyan MPs approve bill to have employers provide breastfeeding stations
Working mothers will be now be able to juggle between work and breastfeeding. MPs approved a historic provision on Tuesday that will make it mandatory for employers to provide breastfeeding stations for nursing mothers in the workplace. In another win for women, after Parliament passed the Matrimonial Property and Sexual Offences bills, MPs also approved […]
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