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[Nigeria Health Watch] In May 2020, criticisms against a 22-year-old mother, Olufunmilola Adisa, accused of killing her baby in Lagos State flooded the internet. Reports alleged that she wrote a letter describing how she did it.
A November 26 letter from the presidency asked the head of Uganda's national drug authority to 'work out a mechanism' to clear the importation of the vaccines.
China has about five COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different levels of trials. It was not clear what vaccine was being imported into Uganda.
One of the frontrunners is the Sinopharm vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates said the vaccine has 86% efficacy, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
China has used the drug to vaccinate up to a million people under its emergency use program.
On Tuesday, Morocco said it was ordering up to 10 million doses of the vaccine.
Record cases
Uganda on Monday registered 701 new COVID-19 cases, the highest-ever daily increase, bringing its national count to 23,200.
The new cases were out of the 5,578 samples tested for the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Tuesday's tally was 606, the second-highest ever number of new infections, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the east African country to 23,860.
Health authorities have blamed ongoing election campaigns which have drawn huge crowds for the rise in infections.
THE NHS is rolling out additional support for pregnant Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority (BAME)...
The post NHS boosts support for pregnant black and ethnic minority women appeared first on Voice Online.
Each year, The March of Dimes' 'March for Babies' campaign raises funds to support mothers and families who have children that are born prematurely. And even as COVID-19 cases spiral upward locally, Damon Hunter, a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., makes a passionate case for why people should donate to the March of […]
A CDC report found that expectant mothers are more likely to be admitted to ICU, receive invasive ventilation, and are at increased risk of death compared to non-pregnant people.
Aid groups warn that forced child marriages could be on the rise globally due to school closures, food insecurity, and economic uncertainty triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In April, TNH travelled to Adamawa, and to Garoua in the North region - more than 1,100 kilometres north of the capital, Yaoundé - to investigate reports that child marriages had increased because of school closures associated with COVID-19 safety measures.
I could have been happy'
Although Cameroon ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which sets a minimum age of 18 for both girls and boys to marry, families often defend child marriages as cultural, or cite a law that allowed girls to be married at 15 or older, according to Nsen Abeng, a Yaoundé-based lawyer.
For 14-year-olds Djouley* and Yawa*, in Maroua, the capital of Cameroon's Far North region, marriage came amidst the school shutdown and the Muslim feast of Ramadan.
Leading rights activists in Cameroon - like Aissa Doumara, who co-founded a branch of the Association for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and Aishatou Bouba, who runs an education non-profit for ethnic Bororo girls called the Cameroon Indigenous Women Forum - are trying to halt the practice.
Zonnique Pullins recently welcomed a baby girl into the world. But before she did, she asked Omarion for some advice on being a parent. And he really came through. See what he had to say.
VOTORANTIM, Brazil—A newborn baby in Brazil was in good hands when his dad caught him after his mother unexpectedly gave birth as she walked through a doorway. A pregnant Joyce Silva, 21, went to the [...]
[Vanguard] With the approval of the COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, and Mordena Inc., mass vaccinations have since commenced in the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
Cessilye Smith is helping address Black maternal and infant mortality through Abide Women's Health Services.
The post How This Dallas Mom is Helping Protect Black Mothers and their Babies appeared first on Texas Metro News.
A 25-year-old Malian woman reportedly gave birth to nine babies in Morocco on Tuesday, Mali said all nonuplets are \"doing well.\"
Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 disease in Nigeria, late February, the various governments took various measures to combat the plague.
Since Nigeria recorded her first case of COVID-19 late February, 7016 persons, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, have tested positive for the disease.
·February 5: The Nigerian Air Force killed \"some\" (estimated at five) ISWA (Boko Haram) militants in Ngala, Borno.
·February 8: The Nigerian Air Force killed \"several\" (estimated at 10 Boko Haram militants in Gwoza, Borno.
·February 27: The Nigerian Air Force killed \"some\" (estimated at 10) Boko Haram militants in Gwoza, Borno.
The singer confessed that it was less finding out she was pregnant and more confirming what she already knew to be true following a wild night of New Year’s Eve sex.
“I ain’t gon front, New Years, I had on this black Rick Owens dress, and I had on this blonde bob and I just knew that night,” she told the follower.
I felt it”
She went on to share that while most people enjoy sex on the regular, there are some nights that just stand out from the rest.
“Like you know, of course, we all like to do it but it be those nights where you know for a fact like you know for a fact, you got pregnant,” she went on.
“On New Year’s Eve we partied all night, we didn’t get into the house until 4 am so you know that middle of the night, real drunk, real h-rny.
(Jamaica Star) A herb which is allegedly treating persons infected with COVID-19 is now in high demand in Portland and St Thomas.
The article People flock ‘magic’ herb -Jamaicans turning to vervine for COVID cure appeared first on Stabroek News.
Unfortunately, because of the unique circumstance surrounding the attacks on Black families in the United States, Black fathers are not always taken seriously.
In an environment wherein all manner of forces have lined up in opposition to Black males, the deck has been stacked against intact families with onsite fathers.
The shortage of Black males due to incarceration, violence and other situations also contributes to the dearth of Black males who would be able to adequately fulfill the role of fathers.
Now, it must be said that in spite of the numerous obstacles placed in the path of Black families that contribute to family dissolution and dysfunction, there are a huge number of Black men who do take fatherhood seriously and who often do not receive the credit they deserve in making sure that their families are nurtured.
These men know that the value of a father’s influence on the health and wellbeing of the family fortifies the foundational structure of the community.
After it was confirmed that Floyd Mayweather's daughter Iyanna is expecting her first child with rapper NBA YoungBoy (his sixth), the 20-year-old just celebrated her little one on the way with a baby shower.
[allAfrica] Analyses by researchers at the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (Accord) warn that Covid-19 has provoked responses that violate human rights, slow effective responses to the pandemic and, ultimately, threaten peace.
[Monitor] The world's population, years over, has been affected by a number of viral diseases such a Ebola and Influenza which, in some cases, have caused millions of deaths.
While Malika Haqq and O.T. Genasis have been broken up since early 2019, before she announced her pregnancy, people still reached out to her about what her child's father was doing with other women. It was a lot as someone bringing his son into the world.
It is to resolve such knotty issues and foster peace in various homes that the School For Husbands was instituted in Mamboué, in the Houndé commune in western Burkina Faso.
Once a week, about 15 married men meet at the school or club for husbands to discuss family life, guided by a facilitator.
“Before the school for husbands was launched in the village, there was a lot of tension among members of my family.
When I get married, I will have many discussions with my wife about contraceptive methods and family planning,” pledged Sienimi Gnoumou, a 23-year-old farmer in Mamboué and a member of the future husbands’ club.
The Boni Health and Social Promotion Center (CSPS) in the Houndé health district has also seen the number of women using new contraceptive methods increase during the first quarter of 2019, in addition to about 10 husbands attending prenatal consultations during the second trimester of the pregnancy and during delivery.
By LYDIA NAMUBIRU, KHATONDI SOITA, KERRY CULLINAN, ARYA KARIJO, ES-TACIO VALOI, STEPHANIE OHUMUIn the days before the Covid-19 crisis, Ugandan sex worker Lillian Namiiro worked on the Tanzanian border, educating fellow sex workers and connecting her community to the national HIV response.
She would remind government workers to send antiretroviral drugs to nearby health centres and checked on whether sex workers needed drug refills.
Health workers and sex workers in Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and Mozambique, said they came up with creative ways to ensure registered HIV patients continue receiving drugs: Home deliveries using bikes, multi-month refills, among others.
“We expect many more new cases of HIV to be reported in the coming months and weeks,” says Thomas Abol, executive director of Keeping Alive Society’s Hope (KASH), a Kenyan organisation that serves sex workers and men who have sex with men.
In South Africa, Megan Lessing, spokesperson for the NGO Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce, said their outreach work — going into communities to talk to sex workers where they live and work — and their walk-in HIV clinic stopped for the first five weeks of lockdown.
[UNFPA] Davis Mukimba is a UNFPA/ACORD community volunteer who doubles up as a motorcycle ambulance rider for Bukigai Health Centre III in Buduuda district, on the slopes of Mount Elgon in Eastern Uganda.
It’s important to gather your village after having a baby, and when they ask, “Is there anything I can do for you?” take them up on it. One of those favors could be running to the store for some of these foods.
