Antenatal Care Keeps Ugandan Women and Their Babies Alive (Elizabeth Glaser...
(Source: Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation) Maternal & Child Health, Uganda By Frederick Womakuyu, EGPAF-Uganda | November 17, 2016 At Kikyenkye Health Centre III near Ibanda, Uganda, I...
View ArticleOver 1,000 stillbirths in Pune every year
PUNE: At a time when Pune is vying for a place in the Prime Minister's list of 100 smart cities, the basic health infrastructure in the city vis-a-vis mother-child care remains abysmally poor. More...
View ArticleThe Majority of Stillbirths Occur in Africa But How Does A Mother Deal With...
Below is the speech I delivered at the launch of the Lancet Series on Ending Preventable Stillbirths. At the launch, I spoke of my own experience of stillbirth in Nigeria and the work that we can do to...
View ArticleWorld making barely any progress on preventing stillbirths, says Lancet
It will be more than 160 years before a woman in Africa has the same chance of her baby being born alive as a woman in a rich country, new research claims...
View Article'My mother did everything but she was left to bleed to death after giving birth'
As the World Health Assembly nears, people in Uganda and beyond are mobilising to demand progress on reproductive health and childcare...
View ArticleGalamsey Women Dont Attend Ante-Natal
Dr. Edmund Ekow Kaitoo, the medical officer in charge of the East Akim Municipal Health Directorate, in the Eastern Region, has observed that some pregnant women in the area do not attend antenatal...
View ArticleYour stories on childbirth and maternal healthcare around the world
We asked you to tell us about your experiences of pregnancy and childbirth where you live. Here are some of your stories, from giving birth in a refugee camp in Kenya to a mountain village in Pakistan...
View ArticleGrief and compassion in the birthing suite (UTS - University of Technology,...
(Source: UTS - University of Technology, Sydney) Midwives devote their careers to delivering healthy newborns into the arms of their parents. But what happens when things go wrong and the long-awaited...
View Article>Lack of experience fuels West Africa Ebola crisis
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — When Ebola hit Uganda two years ago — the third outbreak in a dozen years — the president quickly went on TV and urged Ugandans to avoid touching each other. Health officials...
View ArticleLack of experience fuels West Africa Ebola crisis
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — When Ebola hit Uganda two years ago — the third outbreak in a dozen years — the president quickly went on TV and urged Ugandans to avoid touching each other. Health officials...
View ArticleNalubale Rafting - Down the River Nile
If you are heading to Africa, have I got a plan for you! (Kampala, Uganda.) My telephone rang at 05:51. It was my Ronald from Nalubale Rafting. He was looking for the hotel in Kampala where I was...
View ArticleHuman Rights Committee visits PAP (Parliament of the Republic of Uganda)
(Source: Parliament of the Republic of Uganda) Members of the Ugandan Parliament are visiting the Pan African Parliament to understudy its operations with regard to enforcement of respect of human...
View ArticleAga Khan University to Build New Teaching Hospital in Kampala, Uganda (Aga...
(Source: Aga Khan Development Network) Aga Khan University to Build New Teaching Hospital in Kampala, Uganda His Highness the Aga Khan and His Excellency President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda lay a brick...
View ArticleHow Kampala-Jinja Expressway construction will affect residents
Pedestrians, slow moving vehicles and those with powered wheelchairs will not be allowed to use the high speed expressway once it is completed The government valuer said approvals of the resettlement...
View ArticleUganda: The thin line between victim and perpetrator
Florence Ayot was nine when she was abducted from her home in Uganda’s vast and arid north. That was in 1989. She would spend 15 years with the rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), trekking...
View ArticleThis 'eco stove' does more than cook your dinner
(CNN)In Uganda, more than 28 million people in the country are without electricity. To put that into perspective, the entire population of the beautiful landlocked east-central African nation is less...
View ArticleIs Uganda the best place to be a refugee?
The country’s unusual open policy gives refugees land, education and a chance to work – but instability in neighbouring nations is putting pressure on resources...
View ArticleUganda: UPR Submission
UPR Submission Uganda Addendum to UPR Submission Uganda October 2016 Since Human Rights Watch’s March 2016 submission ahead of Uganda’s next Universal Periodic Review, there have been ongoing...
View ArticleUganda: UPR Submission (HRW - Human Rights Watch)
(Source: HRW - Human Rights Watch) UPR Submission Uganda Addendum to UPR Submission Uganda October 2016 Since Human Rights Watch's March 2016 submission ahead of Uganda's next Universal Periodic...
View ArticleMonday expected to be rainy day across the country
According to the weather forecast released by the Uganda National Meteorological Authority, the Lake Victoria Basin region that includes Entebbe, Kampala, Mukono, Wakiso, Jinja, Mayuge and Bugiri, is...
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