Nigeria – Federal goverment plans annual safe maternity scheme for seven million pregnant women

22nd April 2024
By Lara Adejoro

The Federal Government on Monday launched guidelines on safe motherhood, targeting at least seven million pregnant women, and at least six million newborn births annually.

Speaking at the launch of the guidelines – the Labour Care Guide, and the Guidelines for Community Use of Misoprostol, to commemorate the 2024 Safe Motherhood Day in Abuja, the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof Muhammad Pate, noted that it is possible to achieve safe motherhood in the country.

Continued: https://punchng.com/fg-plans-annual-safe-maternity-scheme-for-seven-million-pregnant-women/

22.04.2024

United Nations Population Fund

From Sunset to a New Dawn: Sustaining Civil Society’s Voice on Safe Motherhood

March 13, 2024
By Jay Gribble & Rebecca Levine

Maternal mortality continues to be one of the scourges in global health. The fact that women die as part of bringing life is an indictment against the overall status of women around the world, and underscores the failure to prioritize women, mothers, and children. Efforts to draw attention to the causes of maternal death and the solutions to maternal mortality abound, but they fail to get enough attention from the decisionmakers who establish health priorities and allocate resources that could actually make a difference.

Global advocacy efforts—such as those led by the White Ribbon Alliance (WRA)—have made progress in drawing attention to maternal mortality, as well as the need to improve maternal health services and outcomes. While improvements in these areas continue to take place, there is still much to achieve through advocacy to improve services and outcomes.

Continued: https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2024/03/from-sunset-to-a-new-dawn-sustaining-civil-societys-voice-on-safe-motherhood/

13.03.2024

White Ribbon Alliance

Empowering mothers, securing futures: The quest for safe motherhood in the Philippines

March 01, 2024
By Gelaine Louise Gutierrez

Bringing a child into the world should be a joyous milestone, not a mortal risk. Yet in the Philippines, over 2,000 women lost their lives while giving birth in 2021 - more than double the number in 2019.

These preventable deaths underscore the urgent need to secure safe motherhood through robust healthcare access and empowerment of Filipino women. Giving birth remains one of the most dangerous moments for women in underserved communities lacking proper medical facilities and prenatal care.

Continued: https://pia.gov.ph/features/2024/03/01/empowering-mothers-securing-futures-the-quest-for-safe-motherhood-in-the-philippines

01.03.2024

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Tanzania – Abortions are illegal – yet one in three pregnancies is terminated

Abortions are illegal – yet one in three pregnancies is terminated

September 26, 2018

Tanzania's population is growing so fast that the government considers family planning necessary to achieve its economic goals. But legalising abortion is not part of the plan.

Since independence in 1962, Tanzania's population has increased from 10 million to more than 55 million. This has affected the country´s resources, especially since 45 percent of the population are under the age of 15 and not professionally active. To counter this trend, the government, in collaboration with international and national non-governmental organisations, wants to educate people about contraceptives and birth control to reduce the rate of growth. In many countries, population growth automatically decreases when a society becomes more developed – but it takes time.

Continued: http://nai.uu.se/news/articles/2018/09/26/122149/index.xml

Nigeria: FG Inaugurates Task Force on Maternal Mortality Reduction

FG Inaugurates Task Force on Maternal Mortality Reduction

July 26, 2017
By Jessica Onyegbula

Abuja – The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, on Tuesday inaugurated a task force on accelerated reduction of maternal mortality in Nigeria.

Adewole, inaugurating the task force in Abuja, said that it has three months to ensure a road map on reduction of maternal mortality in the country.

The minister said that the high Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) in the country was unacceptable and had become imperative to address the challenge as soon as possible.

Continued at source: Sundiata Post: http://sundiatapost.com/2017/07/26/fg-inaugurates-task-force-on-maternal-mortality-reduction/

26.07.2017