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Nurses attach a ventilator to a newborn baby in the nursery at the Juba Teaching Hospital in Juba 3 April 2013.
Source: REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu

Call for more midwives as millions die in childbirth

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New cerebral palsy research may have profound impact on medicolegal cases

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5 May 2021

Children are eating too much poor nutrient quality food and too little of good nutrient quality food. Shutterstock

South Africa needs to change direction on maternal health to solve child malnutrition

Chantell Witten & Shane Norris 9 Mar 2021

The role of bias in how women are treated during childbirth: a Kenyan case study

Patience Afulani 28 Jan 2021

Over 1,700 health workers in the UK’s NHS said they were South African. Illustration: Lisa Nelson

UK accused of poaching health workers from poorer countries

Rufaro Samanga 21 Jan 2021

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A woman gets her blood pressure checked at a camp for internally displaced people in Maiduguri, north-east Nigeria. Stefan Heunis/AFP via Getty Images

How Nigeria can break the culture of silence around women's reproductive illnesses

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#WorldEntrepreneursDay: Teheca is connecting expectant mothers to nurses in Uganda

#WorldEntrepreneursDay: Teheca is connecting expectant mothers to nurses in Uganda

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New technologies are helping people to choose when and how to have children. MidoSemSem/Shutterstock

New technologies mean states must reconsider what 'reproductive rights' are

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In South Africa, both HIV and pre-eclampsia are a burden to maternal health. GettyImages

HIV and high blood pressure in pregnancy: we're tracing the connections

Sayuri Padayachee 18 Jun 2020

Nurses and midwives can make a significant impact in managing and preventing the leading causes of death. Shutterstock

Africa can and must do more to support nurses and midwives

Pauline Bakibinga 16 Apr 2020

What mattered most to mothers using Nigeria’s free maternal health services was that their babies were healthy. Adekunle Ajayi/Getty Images

What mothers told me about Nigeria's free maternal health services

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#BestofBiz 2019: Healthcare

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Join the modern workplace with Microsoft Office 365 and Tarsus on Demand

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Antenatal care in Kenya needs improvement

Patience Afulani 26 Nov 2019

Associate Professor Amrita Pande

Global fertility industry reaffirms pre-existing inequalities

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A lack of research is affecting the choices women make during pregnancy, childbirth, and caring for their baby. Monkey Business Images/ Shutterstock

Research into pregnancy, birth and infant care are historically underfunded - and women are paying the price

Amy Brown 20 Nov 2019

Women and girls in Gayo village, Ehtiopia collect water from a rain water pool which is purified with tablets before use. Shutterstock

Fresh drive to close gaps on health issues facing women and girls

Alex Ezeh 12 Nov 2019

Kenya launched HPV immunisation programme

Kenya launched HPV immunisation programme

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Only one third of women in Madagascar get prenatal care in the first trimester. Shutterstock

Madagascar trial: how a simple pregnancy test can change lives

Alison B Comfort 3 Oct 2019

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Sasog issues guidelines on gender-based violence screening

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Image source: Getty/Gallo

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Africa's first in-utero spina bifida repair

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