Tailored interventions are crucial for improving equitable access to maternal healthcare for women with disabilities.
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Nearly 1,500 healthcare professionals completed the training in hospitals, birth centers and community organizations across the state.
The late postpartum period has the highest risk for maternal deaths, yet the standard of postpartum care in the US ends at approximately six weeks after birth.
Preterm births are associated with enduring trauma for mothers.
Mobile health clinics are a practical but underused solution to the growing number of maternity care deserts in the US.
Research showed that older women used safer methods of abortion. Fully safe methods did not dominate in any region of Ghana.
The opioid reversal drug is distributed directly to new moms at many of Colorado’s birthing hospitals.
Unequal access to contraception poses risks to reproductive-age women, families and Nigeria’s development.
Rates of preterm births, maternal deaths and other adverse birth outcomes are abysmal across the US, but there are clear strategies that could help the nation reverse course.
Advances in research and medicine have given doctors helpful tools to assess a person’s individual risk and to help prepare them for pregnancy.
The rate of stillbirth in the US is stubbornly high. Routine fetal autopsies for stillbirths can help reveal what’s causing them.
Research indicates that pre-eclampsia has a genetic basis. African women are at greater risk than other population groups.
A number of things could affect the success of Nigeria’s scheme to provide free caesarian sections.
Families in Ghana still pay for maternal health services despite the country’s policy of free care.
There’s a clear need for policies that improve healthcare access, reproductive health education, and support systems for young women.
Nigeria needs to adopt a multi-faceted approach that addresses the root causes of child malnutrition.
Black women died during or soon after pregnancy at higher rates than any other racial group in every year from 1999 to 2019. American Indian and Alaska Native women had the greatest increase in risk during this period.
Rural women in Nigeria circumvent patriarchy to make decisions on their healthcare.
A March of Dimes report gave the US a grade of D+ for maternal and infant health care, highlighting that the national preterm birth rate hit 10.5% in 2021, a record 15-year high.
Without policies that take account of a growing population with few working-age people, DRC risks seeing an increase in poverty and hunger.
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Associate professor, University of California, San Francisco
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Communications Specialist, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Senior lecturer, York St John University
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Professor of Global Surgery, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Demography and Social Statistics., Obafemi Awolowo University
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Director, Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategy Extramural Unit, SAMRC, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor of Global Health Systems, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Food Security; Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria
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Executive Director at the Centre for Health, Human rights and Development and lecturer, Uganda Christian University
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Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and Fellow, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
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Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellow & Senior Research Officer, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Research Assistant Professor of Maternal and Child Health, Texas A&M University
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Senior Clinical Lecturer, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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Lecturer, Indonesian Center for Law and Policy Studies (PSHK)