Fighting fistula: Razia's brave recovery from pregnancy nightmare
In a remote village in central Pakistan a teenage girl is screaming for help in unbearable labour pain. There are no trained midwives or doctors around for miles in Rahim Yar Khan District in southern...
View ArticleCan an overdue pregnancy raise the risk of stillbirth?
It's a shock to learn that five babies a day are stillborn in Australia – yet if we could bring ourselves to talk about stillbirth and how to prevent it maybe that number will drop. When my own...
View ArticleWHO Doubles the Number of Prenatal Visits, Changes Guidelines for Care
Pregnant women worldwide should have at least eight visits with competent midwives or health workers before giving birth. That's double the previous recommendation by the World Health Organization...
View ArticleHounded for giving birth outside the system
Some women who opt for alternative births are being forced towards medical intervention or threatened with social services, yet they are doing nothing wrong...
View ArticleTraining volunteers and supporting health systems improves access to...
(Source: IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) According to Ethiopia's 2011 Demographic and Health Survey, nearly half a million children under-five die every year....
View ArticlePregnant Women Should Have At Least Eight Antenatal Visits To Reduce Risk Of...
Pregnant women should have at least eight visits with midwives or health workers before they give birth, which is double the previous recommendation, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO)....
View ArticleStarting a family: “Just as the ambulance crew arrived, I had a huge urge to...
The first man to see my second child emerge into the world wasn’t my husband. That honour, if you will, fell to Dave the paramedic. Not that this was an emergency. Dave was training for such a...
View ArticleExtended drug roll-out is good news for prem babies
Premature births account for 50% of neonatal (within in the first four weeks of birth) deaths in South Africa, according to a 2012 United Nations report on child mortality. But a cheap and fairly easy...
View ArticleWhy don't people talk more about stillbirths?
Share Share this with Copy this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36855840 Close share panel × It happens all too often - in the park, at the supermarket checkout, at the school gate. But every...
View ArticleTraditional Birth Attendants: Lights of the Community (Elizabeth Glaser...
(Source: Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation) By Team EGPAF | August 30, 2016 Margaret Awong'o lives in Lochorekaal, a village of about 20 families in northwest Kenya, not far from the South...
View ArticleRoyal baby: When to induce?
30 April 2015 From the section Health The birth of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's second baby is reported to be overdue, possibly by up to one week. So what could happen now? Most women go into...
View Article'I'm insisting that things be done my way': readers share their birth stories
Whether choosing a home birth or a hospital birth, we asked readers for their experiences and about the quality of care...
View ArticleMobile Technology Reducing Cameroon's Maternal, Child Deaths
Moki Edwin Kindzeka YAOUNDE— Cameroon is experimenting with an automated message service to reduce the number of deaths of pregnant women and infants in Cameroon due to lack of information on antenatal...
View ArticleNamibia: Maternity waiting homes protect newborns and mothers (WHO - World...
(Source: WHO - World Health Organization) January 2016 Two years ago, under shade trees in a field adjacent to the Okongo Hospital located in the Ohangwena Region of northern Namibia, 20 to 30 tents...
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 ArticleAntenatal 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 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...
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