Pregnancy and Childbirth

News : Pregnancy and Childbirth

Girls as young as 14 are routinely taking the morning-after pill to avoid becoming pregnant, ignoring dangers posed by HIV/Aids through unprotected sex, according to a survey by the Sunday Nation and other research. (AllAfrica)

The association of professionals who dispense drugs in the country is alarmed by the ever-increasing demand for emergency contraception. (AllAfrica)

The Catholic Church has maintained its anti-abortion stance by asking its members to reject the Reproductive Health Bill tabled in Parliament, which, if passed, would legalise abortion. (AllAfrica)

A Ugandan pharmacist is the lucky recipient of a $40,000 (about Shs66 million) fellowship to study abortions. Mr Joseph Babigumire, who is currently a doctorate candidate at the School of Pharmacy at the University of Washington in the US, will study the economic impact of unsafe and induced abortion in Uganda. (AllAfrica)

Eighty nine per cent of expectant mothers in Bukwo District deliver at home with the assistance of traditional birth attendants, a health sector report presented by the District Health Officer, Dr Michael Mwanga has revealed. (AllAfrica)

At the centre of the controversial debate that seeks to legalise abortion is a tricky connivance with terms. In the connivance, abortion passes for reproductive health. (AllAfrica)

The sixth African Conference on child abuse and neglect will take place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in May next year. (AllAfrica)

Freelance American filmmaker and journalist Andrew Berends and his translator, Nigerian Samuel George, remain in the custody of Nigerian state security services in Port Harcourt today. The Nigerian military arrested Berends and George on the afternoon of August 31 and transferred them to the State Security Services, local journalists told CPJ. (AllAfrica)

While many a child would join the rest of African children in marking the day of the African child (June 6), Emily Nelima, although a child sat at home to look after another child; her baby. (AllAfrica)

Former president and chairperson of the National Aids Council (NAC) Festus Mogae has expressed his concern that "Batswana continue to have multiple sex partners and condom use remains poor". (AllAfrica)

Research findings from the Children's Department of the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs (MOWAC) say Ghana is making progress in combating issues affecting child survival and development. (AllAfrica)

Katsina State Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Shehu Shema, has commissioned the Mawashi Maternal and Child Clinic constructed by the Millennium Development Goals MDGs in collaboration with the state government. (AllAfrica)

As high population growth becomes one of the barriers to the nation's development, the government is carrying out consultations with different religious institutions to endorse modern Family Planning (FP) methods. (AllAfrica)

Uganda's efforts to reduce child mortality by two thirds by the year 2015 may not be achievable, a Unicef report has revealed. (AllAfrica)

National  Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned nursing mothers against the dangers of fake instant milk named SMA Gold now in circulation. (AllAfrica)

All she saw was blood. Ouma Ibrahim knew it was not normal to have so much blood after delivering her son at home. She consulted a midwife at the nearby Dagamanet Clinic near her Agadez home, who sent her to the regional hospital five kilometres away. (AllAfrica)

WIFE of Bayelsa State governor, Mrs. Alanyingi Sylva, has commend the wife of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Hajia Turai Yar'Adua for calling the attention of the wives of governors to the urgent need to reduce maternal and child mortality rate as required to meet the millennium development goals. (AllAfrica)

UGANDA'S method of preventing HIV transmission from mother-to-child is not effective, AIDS activists have said. (AllAfrica)

A Catholic lobby group has expressed stiff opposition to plans to legalize abortion on demand in Kenya. (AllAfrica)

In its multi-dimensional fight against maternal mortality in Kaduna State, the commissioners for Health, Economic Planning and Finance have both pledged to collaborate with the Development Research Project Centre (DRPC), in the campaign against the problem in the state and in the North-West zone. (AllAfrica)

Niger State government has earmarked N1.7 billion for the provision of healthcare services for women and children in the state. (AllAfrica)

Oyo state commissioner for Health, Dr. Isaac Babalola has identified malnutrition as a major cause of child mortality in Nigeria, accounting for over 60 per cent of deaths of children under the ages od five while Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD) contributes 25.1 per cent. (AllAfrica)

Gombe Specialist Hospital Medical Director, Dr. James Madi, has renewed the call on women in the state to take advantage of the free ante-natal care provided by government in order to avoid complications. (AllAfrica)

In the 1994 genocide, people often lost nearly their entire family. Others might have seen their children die due to awful conditions in refugee camps. How do you (AllAfrica)

The introduction of girls' empowerment clubs at schools has empowered girls not only to excel academically but also prevent teenage pregnancies. (AllAfrica)

NO fewer than 25 women and 90 babies out of 1003 women that put to bed in Bayelsa State have so far lost their lives in the predominantly riverine state due to delivery related complications. (AllAfrica)

The proposed abortion law will deprive parents of their right, obligation and duty in their children's development, a university don said on Saturday. (AllAfrica)

After years of using a single dose of nevirapine to prevent HIV+ mothers from passing on the virus to their babies during delivery, scientific evidence is showing that is not good enough. "The country has been implementing PMTCT since 2000 but the regiments that we are using in Uganda don't reduce mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) markedly," said Dr. Justine Nankinga, the national Anti-Reviral Therapy coordinator in the ministry of health. (AllAfrica)

Health experts and religious leaders have rejected a proposed abortion law that will make it easier to terminate pregnancy. (AllAfrica)

The infant-maternal centre of the maternity of eastern Moxico province attended about 3,680 pregnant women in the first half of this year, ANGOP learnt on Thursday from the head of nursing, Henda Doroteia. (AllAfrica)

The Federal Government has set aside N6 billion to facilitate free medical care for children and pregnant women in six states, Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Dr. Dogo Muhammad, said in Minna, Niger State yesteday. (AllAfrica)

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