Sierra Leone News: Motherhood – a struggle for survival
Sierra Leone continues to be one of the worst countries in the world to be pregnant, a new mother or a baby. Mothers and babies continue to suffer under the yoke of the horrendous healthcare and...
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 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 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 ArticleMum's Account Of Care After Baby Loss 'Should Serve As An Example To Other...
A mum has opened up about the “exemplary” quality of care she received from a NHS hospital in the hours before and after having a stillbirth. Viki Ferguson, 45, hopes her experience at the Royal...
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 ArticleKenya: ‘Strange’ baby dies after mother refuses breastfeeding
A baby girl born in Mombasa without eyes and had deformed nostrils has died after crying for hours due to hunger. The mother, Ms Mariam Mwakombo 22, refused to breastfeed the newborn due to her...
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 ArticleIn Agboyi-Ketu, TBA Homes Experience Boom
One year after the establishment of a Primary Healthcare Centre in Agboyi community, Ketu in Lagos State, pregnant women and nursing mothers continue to patronise traditional birth attendants and have...
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 ArticleHusbands Should Support Their Wives During Pregnancy
Husbands have been asked to give strong support to their pregnant wives – encourage them to go for antenatal care. They should provide them with emotional, psychological and financial assistance....
View ArticleMidwife shortages blamed for home births falling to 15-year low
Only one in 50 babies born at home in 2016, raising concerns that women in England and Wales are not given range of choices...
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 ArticleMum whose baby girl was stillborn calls for home Doppler kits to be BANNED...
A GRIEVING mum is warning pregnant women not to use a home foetal listening kit after she was given "false reassurance" her baby was alive. Vicki McNelly used a home Doppler device to check on her baby...
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...
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