Pregnancy and Childbirth in Africa and the Caribbean

News : Pregnancy and Childbirth in Africa and the Caribbean

THE GHANA Health Service (GHS) has hinted that 12,000 women and 200,000 infants are at risk of death, while one million more will suffer disabilities, if interventions are not put in place, to curb the soaring numbers, resulting from maternal deaths. (AllAfrica)

World Population Day is commemorated globally on July 11 each year. The focus this year was family planning. It highlights the basic human right for individuals and couples to decide the timing and the spacing of their children. (AllAfrica)

A Member of Parliament has asked the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to probe controversial maternal death cases at health facilities in Dar es Salaam. (AllAfrica)

Aja Sumbundu of Nema Alikali, a village near Wellingara, Kanifing Municipality, who was one of the patients in the Infertility Treatment Programme of President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, on Sunday, gave birth to a bouncing baby girl. The baby is named after the vice-president, Aja Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy. (AllAfrica)

In the Vanguard Newspaper of 1 July 2008 (posted to the web), honourable Saadatu Sani, chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) said that there was need to find an alternative name for abortion since the word "abortion" makes people, including parliamentarians, uncomfortable. (AllAfrica)

National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other related matters (NAPTIP) yesterday insisted that the Enugu based medical practitioner, Dr Kenneth Akunne, should not be granted bail. (AllAfrica)

The first technical meeting focusing on Family Planning, Reproductive Health and Integration with HIV/AIDS programs officially kicked off on Monday in Addis Ababa. (AllAfrica)

Despite Nigeria's wealth of natural and human resources, the nation is still experiencing little or no positive outcome in its quest to put an end to maternal mortality and child death in the country. This is contrary to its Millennium Development Goals targeted to be achieved by 75 percent come 2015. (AllAfrica)

The Media Monitoring Project (MMP) has called on the South African media to refrain from presenting a biased, prejudicial and unfair reporting around the issue of legal abortion as set out in the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy (TOP) Act of 1996. (AllAfrica)

Confusion reigns in the case where Dr. Tatien Bucyana, the former director of Nyanza Hospital, and three others are accused of abortion. (AllAfrica)

EVERY baby is a blessing, my friend Barbara told me. At that point, I could not understand how something that was threatening to turn my life inside out could be a blessing. Nothing would ever be the same again; in seven months, I was going to become a mother. (AllAfrica)

About 90 percent of maternal mortality and morbidity in the North takes place in the North-East sub-region, Borno State, in particular, records the highest of such rate in the sub-region though the incidents can be prevented by checking the blood pressure during the ante-natal care. (AllAfrica)

The beds in labour wards are not suitable for easy delivery, according to former Vice-President Dr. Specioza Wandira Kazibwe. (AllAfrica)

Mary Ngwedo talks with long hesitant pauses as if she were still in the state of a disability she developed at the age of 16. Ngwedo got fistula after her first child, which left her leaking urine for 20 years. (AllAfrica)

Zimbabwe has made great strides in championing the rights of women as well as improving reproductive health, an official with the Zimbabwe Women Lawyers' Association has said. (AllAfrica)

Uganda's growing population is our most important asset that should be used for increased productivity in order to achieve economic transformation for the country, President Yoweri Museveni has said. (AllAfrica)

THE story we carry in today's edition about more than 400 school girls in Mumbwa district alone dropping out of school after either getting pregnant or being married off in the last two year is cause for serious concern. (AllAfrica)

Limited resources are hampering efforts of improving maternal health, the Nations Population Fund(UNFPA) said. It said during the marking of the World Population Day yesterday that urgent action was needed to improve maternal health services especially in rural areas. (AllAfrica)

Are you being real? One lesson living with HIV should have taught all of us in this generation is that it is important to plan our lives and our families. (AllAfrica)

An Epworth woman facing charges of terminating a seven-month-old pregnancy was yesterday sentenced to perform community service after a Harare magistrate wholly suspended her nine-month prison term. (AllAfrica)

"It is a nasty experience which I do not want to be reminded of. But if you try to keep it to yourself it will remain a shock for a long time. I cannot even explain the pain I felt after being told that I was carrying dead bodies in my womb," said Sesedzai Manzanga, a Harare teacher, as she recounted giving birth to a dead set of twins two years ago. (AllAfrica)

The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon has been commenting on the health situation women around the globe are faced with, saying that the rate of death for women remains "the starkest indicator" of the disparity between rich and poor. (AllAfrica)

A vast pregnancy has swollen the tiny woman walking South Sudan's shining new maternity ward clutching two pieces of paper stapled together. She looks no more than 16, eyes wide-eyed with recent pain. (AllAfrica)

More than 140 countries worldwide will observe world population day today ,11 July 2008. (AllAfrica)

Men and women have the right to access safe, effective, affordable and acceptable methods of family planning, says Social Development Deputy Minister Dr Jean Swanson-Jacobs. (AllAfrica)

Traditional rulers in Sierra Leone and some other African countries have been enlisted by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in the fight against maternal mortality in Africa. (AllAfrica)

FEDERAL Commissioner of National Population Commission (NPC), Dr. Bode Iwaloye has described the present mortality ratio as too frightening, noting that about 800 maternal deaths are recorded per 100,000 live births in the country. (AllAfrica)

Rwanda has reason to celebrate this World Population Day with a smile- if not a wide grin on her face. The theme for this years World Population Day celebrations is, 'It's a right, let's make it happen.' (AllAfrica)

Today, Uganda joins the rest of the world to mark World Population Day. As we celebrate this day, our attention is drawn to the fact that people have the right to access family planning information and services to help them make informed choices about their reproductive options. (AllAfrica)

The New Vision share rights started trading yesterday on the Uganda Securities Exchange. (AllAfrica)

The rate at which Ugandans are reproducing may have far-reaching negative implications if things to continue this way. We are headed for a man-made catastrophe, in which we are likely to fight for space, food or even fresh air. (AllAfrica)

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