maternal health

By Stella Kabruk Women in Keke makeri community in Kaduna State, have attributed their poor attendance of antenatal care to lack of health facilities in their community. The women also decried lack of access road to the nearest…

New evidence from fetal brain scans has shown that a mother’s stress during pregnancy can change the neural connectivity in the brain of her unborn child, potentially affecting the baby’s brain functions. Moriah Thomason, an…

By Joseph Edegbo Kaduna ( Nigeria) - Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Faisal Shuaib has said that the Federal Government is engaging 100,000 agents under the Community Health Influencers, Promoters…

In this report, Shindong Bala rnarrates how absence of health care facility has resulted to increased cases of death and Vesico-Vaginal Fistula VVF in Keffin Gbagyi community of Igabi Local Government Area Kaduna State,…

By Joseph Edegbo Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) will on Tuesday, December 12th, 2017, hold its second annual Media Conference tagged “MediaAfrica” in Kaduna, Northwest, Nigeria. The conference is aimed at drawing the…

By Ibrahima Yakubu Kaduna (Nigeria) inhabitants of Hayin kogi- Mishigi village ln Igabi Local government area of Kaduna State, northwest Nigeria have cried out, following frequent loss of lives through the use of canoe in crossing River…

By Joy Odor For Kaduna to reduce its high rate of maternal death, the state must raise the number of women spacing their births from the 507,017 figure of 2015 to 856,183 by the end of next year. This was stated by a Development…

Cairo (Egypt) - As part of the national program for early breast cancer checks, 180,000 women older than 40 have been examined for free since October 2007, the Health Ministry declared. Advisor to the Health Minister, Abeer al-Maghawry,…