Traditional 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 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 ArticleInternational Women’s Day – Women That Inspire Us
Maternal & Child Health, Global By Team EGPAF | March 6, 2017 Today is International Women's Day. At the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF), we're celebrating progress made - we've...
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 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 ArticleFistula, a preventable birth injury, afflicts most vulnerable women and girls
WAU, South Sudan - Childbirth is supposed to be a joyous occasion. But for the most vulnerable women and girls, it can be anything but. Alexina Myambero Stimela knows this from experience. A nurse and...
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 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 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 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 ArticleH.E PRESIDENT YOWERI KAGUTA MUSEVENI PAYS A TWO DAYS WORKING STATE VISIT TO...
(Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uganda) Latest News Highlights Sunday, 18th September 2016 H.E President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni paid a two-day Working State Visit to France from...
View ArticleInternational Adoption, Family Preservation and Money
In a recent blog post an adoptive mother somewhere in the U.S. and blessed with 13 kids already, asks her readers for donations. She is in the process of adopting another two children from the Ukraine,...
View ArticleFEATURE: Volcanic rock stoves cook food, and protect forests, in Uganda
By Isaiah Esipisu KAMPALA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Cooks at a community kitchen in Kampala's Nakasero Hill business district are preparing a traditional breakfast of green bananas in offal sauce...
View ArticleSeven killed in road accident in central Uganda
KAMPALA, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Seven people were killed and two others critically injured in a road accident on Saturday in the central Ugandan district of Masaka. Lamek Kigozi, Masaka...
View ArticleAfrica Live: Abducted Chibok girl 'rescued', Tanzania jihadi video
Nigerian girl seized by militant Islamists 'found', 'Tanzania jihadists' release video, Ugandan opposition leader charged with treason, and other African news updates. Watch Duration: 2:27 From African...
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