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By Nigeria Health Watch | November 30, 2024

An Unseen Grief: Maternal Mortality’s Impact on Infants and Children

Sonia Biose and Sunday Oko (Lead Writers) Maternal mortality remains a critical challenge, impacting homes, families and communities globally. A report from the World Health Organization (WHO) highlighted the alarming indices, revealing that in 2020, a maternity-related death occurred nearly every two minutes. This equates to approximately 800 daily maternal deaths from preventable causes daily […]

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How rechargeable tricycles are saving pregnant mothers and newborns in rural Zimbabwe.

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 3, 2021

By Farai Shawn Matiashe (Lead Writer) In Zana 3, Wedza District, 131 kilometres south of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, Talent Zindi, 21, a subsistence farmer, is inspecting the ear flowers of a maize plant in her field. She will be harvesting her maize crop in two weeks. Zindi says the harvest season reminds her […]

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