Enugu’s free maternal programme is providing better health for rural women...
“This article was produced in collaboration with Maternal Figures, a database of maternal health interventions implemented in Nigeria.” At Amorji Nike Primary Healthcare Centre [PHC] in Enugu East...
View ArticleUniPort Teaching Hospital ensures safe deliveries and immunisation despite...
After six months of anxiety, panic and unrest as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, medical doctors at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) have treated and discharged the last...
View Article“I decided to be pregnant with my wife” – Men as nurturers for healthy...
Aloysius Chidiebere Ugwu (Lead Writer) In January 2020, in the middle of the dry season known as harmattan in Nigeria, I was in Kano state performing my duties as a health advocate when I received news...
View ArticleHow a Collaborative Approach to Maternal Care is Saving the Lives of Mothers...
In Nigeria, systemic gaps in the quality of maternal care includes the lack of life-saving medical equipment, the low adoption of the Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) in...
View ArticleMPD-4-QED: A Database to Improve the Quality of Care for Maternal and Newborn...
By Anthonia Obokoh (Lead Writer) The maternal mortality rate in Nigeria is 512 deaths per 100,000 live births, and according to the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS), 61 percent of live...
View ArticleJulia Burke Maternity Centre blends trado-modern methods to provide quality care
By Adaobi Ezeokoli & Aloysius Chidiebere Ugwu (Lead Writers) The GEANCO Foundation has intervened in the area of medical missions for orthopaedic surgery in Nigeria since 2011. In 2014, they began...
View ArticleHealthy Mother, Healthy Child: Encouraging ANC, PMTCT uptake in Akwa Ibom State
By Kelechukwu Iruoma (Lead Writer) Eme Okon was two months pregnant with her third child when she started attending antenatal care (ANC) at the Eyokponung Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Akwa Ibom State...
View ArticleBig Steps Forward: Cameroon’s Multi-Sector Approach to Reducing...
By Leocadia Bongben (Lead Writer) Jean Firwa and his wife Martha were excited to be expecting a baby after 10 years of trying to conceive. However, neither realised that their joy would be short-lived....
View ArticleThe ‘AI-Powered Midwife’ Helping Pregnant Nigerian Women and Newborns Stay...
By Innocent Eteng (Lead Writer) Five years ago, when pregnancy related complications threatened the life of Abisola Oladapo’s new-born baby, she experienced a ‘eureka’ moment. “Unknown to me, my water...
View ArticleLeveraging Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Access to Quality Maternal...
The quality of healthcare a woman receives during pregnancy, delivery and postpartum is critical as it determines whether she lives or dies. Evidence shows that a majority of the maternal medicines...
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