Follow AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/all-africa-news-pregnancy Wed, 29 Nov 2023 04:13:30 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwKQuW9PJkC8fn1d0VB8z-7c [Ghanaian Times] About 50 per cent of babies delivered annually at the maternity unit of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) are preterm, Senior Specialist Paediatrician, Dr Kojo Ahor-Essel, has disclosed.]]> Fri, 24 Nov 2023 17:13:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwKQuW9PJkC8fn1d0VB8z-7c https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwIzsU5gpdk5CG7fhEn5oRuR [The Conversation Africa] About half a million babies die each year as a result of pre-eclampsia, an aggressive and potentially life-threatening problem in pregnancy. Approximately 46,000 women also die each year due to the disorder.]]> Tue, 21 Nov 2023 06:38:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwIzsU5gpdk5CG7fhEn5oRuR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwIdLmHvIdzxdofjc6hd5eWF [Namibian] Some 145 women have died while giving birth, while 1 066 stillbirths were recorded between 2018 and 2021.]]> Sun, 19 Nov 2023 14:51:03 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwIdLmHvIdzxdofjc6hd5eWF https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwIxCI9imK3ZQ67VFky8BpXO [Daily News] DAR ES SALAAM:FORMER President, Jakaya Kikwete has applauded the government for notable reduction of maternal deaths from 556 in every 100,000 live births in 2016 to 104 deaths in 2022.]]> Fri, 17 Nov 2023 09:02:55 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwIxCI9imK3ZQ67VFky8BpXO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwK-Dek6o0jGzHCrAHWlao0B [Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- Governments should review their positions on traditional birth attendants and recognise and support their work, including by ensuring they are paid and resourced adequately. That is the position of the international research and advocacy NGO, Human Rights Watch in its latest dispatches.]]> Wed, 15 Nov 2023 19:04:49 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwK-Dek6o0jGzHCrAHWlao0B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwL8pykhtZNvaofjc6hd5eWF [Nile Post] As the world approaches World Premature Day, Mulago Specialized Women and Neonatal Hospital grapples with an influx of preterm babies, attributing the surge to a concerning trend of expectant mothers neglecting antenatal care services.]]> Wed, 15 Nov 2023 12:19:39 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwL8pykhtZNvaofjc6hd5eWF https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwKHHRzea7KSCCxhxzpi7FpJ [Nile Post] Activists have insisted that formal sexuality education will help reduce adolescent sexual risky behaviours when provided before sexual initiation and in turn help reduce teenage pregnancies.]]> Mon, 13 Nov 2023 09:22:39 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwKHHRzea7KSCCxhxzpi7FpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwKloyFz5355RrG7Iy_4u0x9 [Daily News] Despite President Samia Suluhu Hassan announcing lifting a ban for teen mothers returning to school one year after she assumed the presidency, some of the teen mothers struggle to return to school due to various reasons, including extreme poverty and lack of support from the family level.]]> Sat, 11 Nov 2023 09:07:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwKloyFz5355RrG7Iy_4u0x9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwIkeWxwxhHX3yRFMxTa8z4W [UNFPA] When Eulina João, 19, became a mother at the tender age of 17, she lacked crucial knowledge about sexual and reproductive health. She believes her life could have taken a different path if she had been armed with the knowledge she has today about family planning.]]> Thu, 09 Nov 2023 12:46:35 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwIkeWxwxhHX3yRFMxTa8z4W https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwItkiYkVNlkKKgzzHWHxDTV [Ghanaian Times] The head of the newly created Media Relations Directorate of Parliament, David Sabastian Damoah, has called on the Editor of the Ghanaian Times, David Agbenu.]]> Wed, 08 Nov 2023 15:04:01 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwItkiYkVNlkKKgzzHWHxDTV https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwJVBCouHDPDF8lTP0vptTFR [Nile Post] Stakeholders in Kigezi sub region have raised concern at the rate which mother's die while giving birth in the area.]]> Thu, 02 Nov 2023 10:49:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwJVBCouHDPDF8lTP0vptTFR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwKioULWZoIv97kdRKkm2PJP [Daily News] PRESIDENT Dr Samia Suluhu Hassan yesterday launched the new Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicator Survey (2022 TDHS-MIS), which shows that the country has cut down maternal mortality rate by 80 per cent.]]> Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:10:57 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwKioULWZoIv97kdRKkm2PJP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwJ6bytIC0tTJR-xWH3zZqEA [Nyasa Times] A study has established that pregnant women who smoke (tobacco) are at greater risk of delivering stillbirths, premature births and/or miscarriage while passive smokers (exposure of the non-smoking mother to second-hand smoke) also run the risk of harming the foetus.]]> Mon, 30 Oct 2023 12:29:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwJ6bytIC0tTJR-xWH3zZqEA https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwLcx4LjFRTiiS3FFO_xyF25 [Nile Post] As I nervously awaited my turn to take the stage at a mental health conference, her words struck a chord deep within me: "I'd rather be HIV positive than pregnant."]]> Fri, 27 Oct 2023 10:06:05 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwLcx4LjFRTiiS3FFO_xyF25 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwLzj1TTf8sf4sqq6eZJzUh9 [The Point] Eleven African First Ladies including the First Lady of the Republic of The Gambia, Fatoumatta Bah Barrow recently gathered in India to discuss issues relating to the health of people with a focus on infertility and stigma.]]> Wed, 25 Oct 2023 14:50:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwLzj1TTf8sf4sqq6eZJzUh9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwLzj1TTf8sf4p8v71dCn6bG [The Point] The Gambia is a relatively calm and stable country, and the dreams of most of her youth is about life in Europe, hence they risk their lives in the Sahara with Europe as the goal.]]> Wed, 25 Oct 2023 14:50:01 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwLzj1TTf8sf4p8v71dCn6bG https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwKAUkjtCPj6U96jHbRcHw3s [New Times] In 2020, Following a Covid-19 lockdown, Dr Jerome Nshimiyimana encountered a young girl who was pregnant. Notably, she was both deaf and visually impaired.]]> Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:11:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwKAUkjtCPj6U96jHbRcHw3s https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwLq-h7YGp56l7G7Iy_4u0x9 [spotlight] As a child growing up in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, Maureen Etuket used a screwdriver to dismantle electronic appliances and toy trucks. "I was around eight, nine years old," she says. "I guess it just excited me."]]> Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:51:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwLq-h7YGp56l7G7Iy_4u0x9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwIiZrmxtb_v8u9WSSr4-0sP [ISS] Educated job seekers fall prey to online scams, driving the trafficking of East Africans to Southeast Asia.]]> Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:32:28 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwIiZrmxtb_v8u9WSSr4-0sP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwJmg8uEWBdhI27fhEn5oRuR [Nyasa Times] President Dr Lazarus Chakwera on Monday abandoned his presidential helicopter and travelled to Makanjira in Mangochi by road to experience what the people of Mangochi and all users of Makanjira Road experience.]]> Tue, 17 Oct 2023 11:07:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/_wenwPcunwJmg8uEWBdhI27fhEn5oRuR