South Africa is grappling with a growing crisis of adolescent and teenage pregnancy, with a significant number of these cases ...

A researcher in Purdue University's Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering is participating in a two-year research study ...

Pregnant people who are hospitalized with COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa are dying at a rate far greater than pregnant people without COVID-19 and non-pregnant people with COVID-19, according to a new ...

WHEN A WOMAN heads to the delivery room, the expectation is that a happy ending is all but guaranteed. This story is true for most women in developed countries where health care works well due to ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Acute malnutrition among pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers has increased by 25% in the past two years in 12 countries hard hit by rising food prices fueled by the fighting ...

Pre-eclampsia is a danger to pregnant women. It’s a complication characterised by high blood pressure and organ damage, arising during the second half of pregnancy, in labour or in the first week ...

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 ...

Cotonou, Benin (CNN)As you walk through the fading white gates of the Association Saint Camille de Lellis, named after the patron of the sick, you are consumed by the buzz of activity everywhere. Just ...

Manasi Kumar receives funding from US National Institutes of Health, Fogarty International Centre and UK National Institute of Health Research. The rates of adolescent pregnancies in sub-Saharan ...