The high number of stillbirths shows we are not listening to women properly
Kate Nelson was pregnant with twins four years ago when she began to feel ill and couldn’t keep food or water down. At the hospital she saw yet another overstretched clinician who didn’t know her or...
View ArticleUganda's capital blazes a trail in cutting child deaths, charity says
By Katy Migiro KAMPALA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Inside the second busiest hospital in Uganda, a Somali refugee gingerly paces up and down the maternity ward to ease her labour pains, passing a...
View ArticleOne million babies die globally on the first day of their life – Save the...
(Source: Save the Children International) The first 24 hours of a child's life are the most dangerous with more than one million babies dying each year on their first and only day of life, according to...
View ArticleNHS charges putting pregnant migrant women in danger
Women are running away from antenatal units to avoid costs, putting their babies' – and their own – lives at risk, charity warns...
View ArticleWelfare of New Born Children and Mothers (Ministry of Health and Family...
(Source: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Republic of India) The Government of India under the National Health Mission (NHM) is implementing following interventions across all States and...
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 ArticleFreebirthing: is giving birth without medical support safe?
With independent midwives being outlawed next month, many expect a rise in women giving birth at home without medical help. But does 'freebirthing' result in happy, intervention-free labours? Or is it...
View ArticlePreparations during pregnancy in a rural setting
Share Twitter Ghana News Share View Comments Disclaimer: Photograph is not related to the storyWith barely three years left to achieve the targets of the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5,...
View ArticleWorldwide 5.5 million babies are born and die each year without a record of...
(Source: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) Worldwide 5.5 million babies are born and die each year without a record of their existence Tuesday, 20 May 2014 New Lancet Series finds...
View ArticleMaternal Mortality Still On The Rise In Ghana
Reducing maternal mortality is a conversation Ghana has been having since the 1990s, but dying in childbirth is still a risk many young Ghanaian women face in 2013. Eleven per cent of female deaths in...
View Article5.5m babies a year die without birth or death certificate
More than 5.5 million babies are born and die each year without a birth or death certificate– an indication that the world does not care enough to make the necessary effort to save their lives, an...
View Article8,000 new born babies die everyday globally
LONDON: With nearly 8 lakh new born babies dying every year in India, the country holds the dubious distinction of having the highest number of such deaths globally. A comprehensive review led by...
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 ArticleOne Woman's Work to Highlight the True Cost of a Mother's Life Lost
The last time Faridah Luyiga Mwanje saw her sister Remie alive, she was preparing to give birth to her fourth child at a top private hospital in Kampala, Uganda. Remie bled to death as a consequence of...
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 ArticleActivists in Uganda Are Fighting for Better Maternal Health
Sisters Faridah Luyiga and Remmie Wamala were so close they “knew each other’s secrets,” says Luyiga, 34, the younger of the pair. So when they both became pregnant at the same time, they believed it...
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 ArticleNewborns being stolen at a top Uganda hospital
Click photo to enlarge In this photo of Friday, Aug. 16, 2013, Michael Mubangizi, left, his wife Jennifer, centre, with their baby at their home in Kyebando a suburb of Uganda's capital Kampala. When...
View ArticleHow Can Men Help Stop The Spread of HIV to Infants and Children?
The past fifteen years have shown major improvements in ending the AIDS epidemic globally: the number of people newly infected by HIV has declined by 38 percent since 2001 and AIDS related deaths have...
View ArticleThe Big Push: Call the Midwife in Bangladesh
More than 350,000 babies are born globally every day. Yet in many cultures it remains a mystical and deeply superstitious act. Now expertise from the UK's TV hit Call the Midwife is helping people in...
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