Maternal Monday II - What Is Your Moment of Obligation?
Last week, we kicked off our #MaternalMonday Stories campaign, sharing the moments that inspired the Wellbeing Foundation Africa team to dedicate their lives to improving reproductive, maternal,...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s child support grant should start in pregnancy (University of...
(Source: University of the Witwatersrand) 8 February 2017 - Matthew Cherisch and Sharon Fonn Pregnancy and childbearing reduces women's income-generating potential and introduces a host of new...
View ArticlePregnant women must be able to access the right care at the right time, says...
(Source: WHO - World Health Organization) News release 7 November 2016 | GENEVA -WHO has issued a new series of recommendations to improve quality of antenatal care in order to reduce the risk of...
View ArticleCall to review baby death rates at more than 20 NHS trusts and boards
Inquiry urges those with higher than average stillbirth and newborn death rates to examine their maternity care to see if mistakes were made...
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 ArticleMidwife Explains The Spiritual Side Of Birth
Birth is rarely depicted in popular media as anything other than a painful and traumatic experience. Midwife Marianne Littlejohn, who runs a website and practice in Cape Town, South Africa, called...
View ArticleFighting 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 ArticleThe 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 ArticleExplainer: what are women’s options for giving birth? (University of Western...
(Source: University of Western Sydney) The following piece, by Professor Hannah Dahlen from the School of Nursing and Midwifery(opens in new window) was first published by The Conversation (opens in...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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