Please turn JavaScript on
header-image

AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth

Subscribe to AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth’s news feed.

Click on “Follow” and decide if you want to get news from AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth via RSS, as email newsletter, via mobile or on your personal news page.

Subscription to AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth comes without risk as you can unsubscribe instantly at any time.

You can also filter the feed to your needs via topics and keywords so that you only receive the news from AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth which you are really interested in. Click on the blue “Filter” button below to get started.

Website title: Home - allAfrica.com

Is this your feed? Claim it!

Publisher:  Unclaimed!
Message frequency:  0.42 / day

Message History

[Premium Times] The report, obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, linked the nearly 50 per cent reduction to expanded access to skilled maternity care, improved referral systems, and the nationwide scale-up of emergency obstetric services.

Read full story
[Premium Times] It showed 32 per cent of girls aged 15-19 in Kebbi had been pregnant, followed by Zamfara and Kaduna at 30 per cent each, while Lagos and Edo recorded about three per cent.

Read full story
[spotlight] Despite the proven benefits of newborn hearing screening and early intervention, universal screening is not yet mandated in South Africa and is only available at a few public hospitals.

Read full story
[allAfrica] Women continue to die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth, and this is unacceptable. While Africa has made progress in reducing maternal mortality since 2000, the region still needs a twelve-fold increase in the annual reduction rate to meet the Sustainable Development Goal, according to the estimates from the United Nations Maternal Mortality Estimation I...

Read full story