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Zimbabwe: 'I Was All Alone' - Why Some Zimbabwean Women Kill Their Babies
[Global Press Journal] Harare -- More than three decades after Zimbabwe created its infanticide law to spare women harsh murder sentences, advocates say the root causes have yet to be addressed. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - January 7, 2024 Category: OBGYN Tags: Children and Youth Health and Medicine Legal and Judicial Affairs Pregnancy and Childbirth Southern Africa Women and Gender Zimbabwe Source Type: news

Zimbabwe: 'Support Girls to Help Stamp Out Teen Pregnancies'
[The Herald] Gloria Muruva -- Health experts have urged the Government to urgently implement measures to address the rising number of child pregnancies, largely through ensuring adolescent girls had support and back-up so they could step away from early sexual relationships. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - January 5, 2024 Category: OBGYN Tags: Children and Youth Health and Medicine Pregnancy and Childbirth Southern Africa Zimbabwe Source Type: news

Kenya: Wetangula Urges Parents to Be Watchful of Daughters to Stem High Cases of Teenage Pregnancies
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula has urged parents, in Bungoma Kilifi and Busia to be more watchful as they raise their female children to stem the high cases of teenage pregnancies in those areas. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - December 28, 2023 Category: OBGYN Tags: Children and Youth East Africa Health and Medicine Kenya Pregnancy and Childbirth Source Type: news

South Africa: In-Depth - What Is the Situation With Self-Managed Abortions in SA?
[spotlight] In a context where access to surgical abortion is limited, self-managed abortion has the potential to help women realise their right to terminate pregnancies, in privacy and from the comfort of their own homes. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - December 27, 2023 Category: OBGYN Tags: Health and Medicine Human Rights Pregnancy and Childbirth South Africa Southern Africa Sustainable Development Women and Gender Source Type: news

Namibia: Oshakati Gets 18 Babies for Christmas
[Namibian] Oshakati Intermediate Hospital has recorded a total of 18 babies born on Christmas Day. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - December 27, 2023 Category: OBGYN Tags: Health and Medicine Namibia Pregnancy and Childbirth Southern Africa Source Type: news

Nigeria: On Maternal Mortality in Nigeria
[This Day] Health authorities could do more to contain the scourge (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - December 18, 2023 Category: OBGYN Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria Pregnancy and Childbirth West Africa Women and Gender Source Type: news

Kenya: MSF's Statement Regarding Kenyan Sterilisation Case
[MSF] Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been informed on 21 September of the ruling of the High Court of Kenya in the context of a lawsuit that was filed in 2014 by four people, three of which are former MSF patients, against five health institutions, including MSF. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - December 5, 2023 Category: OBGYN Tags: HIV-Aids and STDs East Africa Health and Medicine Human Rights Kenya Legal and Judicial Affairs Pregnancy and Childbirth Women and Gender Source Type: news

Kenya: MSF Welcomes High Court's Ruling on Women Rights to Equal Access to Reproductive Health and Informed Consent to Medical Procedure
[MSF] Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the ruling of the High Court of Kenya issued on 21st September that brings closure to a lawsuit filed in 2014 by four women against five health institutions, including MSF. The women, living with HIV, say they underwent bilateral tubal ligation which prevents future pregnancy, without their informed consent. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - December 5, 2023 Category: OBGYN Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Human Rights Kenya Legal and Judicial Affairs Pregnancy and Childbirth Women and Gender Source Type: news

Ghana: 50 Percent of Babies Delivered At Korle-Bu Are Preterm - Dr Ahor-Essel
[Ghanaian Times] About 50 per cent of babies delivered annually at the maternity unit of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) are preterm, Senior Specialist Paediatrician, Dr Kojo Ahor-Essel, has disclosed. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - November 24, 2023 Category: OBGYN Tags: Ghana Health and Medicine Pregnancy and Childbirth West Africa Source Type: news

Namibia: 145 Mothers Die While Giving Birth
[Namibian] Some 145 women have died while giving birth, while 1 066 stillbirths were recorded between 2018 and 2021. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - November 19, 2023 Category: OBGYN Tags: Health and Medicine Namibia Pregnancy and Childbirth Southern Africa Women and Gender Source Type: news

Uganda: Human Rights Watch - Support Maternal Community Health Workers
[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- Governments should review their positions on traditional birth attendants and recognise and support their work, including by ensuring they are paid and resourced adequately. That is the position of the international research and advocacy NGO, Human Rights Watch in its latest dispatches. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - November 15, 2023 Category: OBGYN Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Human Rights Pregnancy and Childbirth Uganda Source Type: news

Tanzania: Why Teen Mothers Struggle to Return to School
[Daily News] Despite President Samia Suluhu Hassan announcing lifting a ban for teen mothers returning to school one year after she assumed the presidency, some of the teen mothers struggle to return to school due to various reasons, including extreme poverty and lack of support from the family level. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - November 11, 2023 Category: OBGYN Tags: Children and Youth East Africa Education Governance Health and Medicine Human Rights Legal and Judicial Affairs Pregnancy and Childbirth Tanzania Source Type: news

Ghana: Parliament, NTC to Deepen Ties
[Ghanaian Times] The head of the newly created Media Relations Directorate of Parliament, David Sabastian Damoah, has called on the Editor of the Ghanaian Times, David Agbenu. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - November 8, 2023 Category: OBGYN Tags: Ghana Governance Health and Medicine Pregnancy and Childbirth West Africa Source Type: news

Uganda: Spike in Maternal Deaths Worries Authorities in Kigezi
[Nile Post] Stakeholders in Kigezi sub region have raised concern at the rate which mother's die while giving birth in the area. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - November 2, 2023 Category: OBGYN Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Pregnancy and Childbirth Uganda Women and Gender Source Type: news