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A new study explores the challenges that pregnant women in megacities such as Lagos face in emergency situations and how the options vary depending on their socioeconomic status.
Health surveillance assistants provide services in village clinics, mainly by assessing signs and symptoms in sick children. An electronic community case management app could make their job easier.
Breastfeeding support programmes need to engage more with the challenges that mothers face.
The women in our study knew that play was important, although they didn’t see it as an independent behaviour to be encouraged or promoted.
Regreening Africa works directly with 500,000 households to restore one million hectares of agricultural land.
For 10 years, Kenya’s legislators have failed to enact a law to implement a two-thirds gender rule set down in the 2010 constitution, despite numerous court rulings.
Persistent challenges of the past and the present burden women with unspoken traumas, but art such as needlework is a way to break the silence.
The Global Gag Rule transcends abortion and exacerbates weaknesses and vulnerabilities of the Kenyan health system.
The return of medicine can’t be avoided. It’s inevitable that some products will be returned because of faults or when they have expired.
The use of antiretroviral therapy among pregnant and breastfeeding women in Zambia has increased but adherence is a problem.
Emergency relief measures were operational for six months and are due to end soon. But the impacts of COVID-19 will be felt long after.
The current pneumococcal conjugate vaccine immunisation schedule requires three doses of the vaccine. These are usually the most expensive vaccines in childhood immunisation programmes.
The world is in the grip of a new pandemic which sets back the fight against rabies.
Adolescents and young adults who reported having experienced sexual violence were more likely to have also had an unintended pregnancy.
Localising the child’s right act across the country will guarantee the application of child right laws to all children.
In cross-sector collaboration, communities and citizens articulate their needs and then partner with governments and NGOs to address these self-identified problems.
Nigeria’s unreliable power supply comes with a triple challenge of social, economic and environmental costs.
Regional tourism took a huge knock from the Day Zero experience in Cape Town, South Africa. Here are the lessons learnt.
Some insights into previous outbreaks of human coronaviruses may be useful in explaining the comparatively ‘low’ numbers of COVID-19 infections and mortality in people with HIV in South Africa.
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