An estimated 12 million teenage pregnancies are reported globally every year. Girls and young women in this age group face multiple risk factors that contribute to early pregnancies. These include a ...

Prof Moses Obimbo Madadi, leading Clinician-Scientist and Associate Professor at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Africa has the highest neonatal mortality rate in the world, with 27 deaths per 1,000 ...

Background Globally, adolescent mothers and their children have poorer health outcomes. However, little is known regarding having multiple children as an adolescent. Analyses explore associations ...

Maternal health experts have stated that fever during pregnancy is abnormal and poses the risk of miscarriage, premature delivery and birth defects.They explained that fever, which is defined as a ...

In women living with HIV, preventive treatment with DHA-PPQ is a safe and effective strategy to prevent malaria during pregnancy, according to the final results of the MAMAH clinical trial. In women ...

(Bloomberg) -- The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has seen cases of mpox infection in pregnant women being passed on to unborn babies in central Africa, Director-General Jean Kaseya ...

The African Union Commission and its specialized agency on girls and women’s education is currently hosting a conference in Addis Ababa with government ministers, education experts, and civil society ...

Matthew Chersich receives funding through: the HE2AT Centre, a grant supported by the NIH Common Fund and NIEHS, which is managed by the Fogarty International Centre; the HIGH Horizons project from ...

Syphilis is a serious infection that can be transmitted by a pregnant mother to her baby. If it's not diagnosed and treated in time, it can lead to problems like miscarriage, stillbirth, low birth ...