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AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth
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Uganda: Country Needs a Body to Oversee Fertility Treatment
There is more to in vitro fertilisation (IVF) than merely fertility treatment. Reproductive liberty which uses technology to subordinate early human life to extra-uterine fertilisation should be subject to moral and legal oversight. The moral issue is the status of the pre-implantation embryos.
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Nigeria: Jigawa Vows to Tackle Maternal Mortality
Jigawa Stage government has donated 19 vehicles to communities for easy conveyance of pregnant women to hospitals during labour.Presenting nine vehicles to ni-ne communities yesterday, the state commissioner of women af-fairs, Hajiya Fatima Widi Jalo, said the gesture was extended to the communities under the sta-te government's programme 'Haihuwa lafiya'.
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Angola: Over 100 Families Seek Family Planning
At least 169 families joined the family planning programme in December, 2008, at maternal and infantile centre of northern Uige province, informed Tuesday the institution's chief, Rosa Laurindo António.
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Uganda: Tetanus- Immunising Pregnant Women, Hygiene Will Save the Babies
AFTER years of waiting, Jane was blessed with a healthy baby boy.
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South Africa: Refugee Moms to Receive Formula
Hundreds of refugee mothers across the Cape Flats may be off to a better start in the new year as they are set to receive milk formula for their babies.
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Nigeria: Lagos Honours New Year Babies
New Year babies born in Lagos were showered with gifts by Abimbola, the wife of Governor Babatunde Fashola, who visited hospitals and urged the mothers to exclusively breast feed for six months to ensure their survival.
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Nigeria: New Year - Seven Babies Born in Lagos
As Nigerians join the rest of the world in ushering in the New Year on yesterday, at least seven new babies were born at four public hospitals in Lagos State, with the first arriving at about 12.01 am at Ayinke House, Lagos State university Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja while the set of twins were born at Island Maternity Hospitals, Lagos Island and another at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) at exactly 1:30 am.
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Nigeria: Governor's Wife Presents Gifts to Eight New Year Babies
The Wife of the Lagos State Governor, Mrs Abimbola Fashola, yesterday presented gifts to eight babies delivered on New year in Lagos.
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Zimbabwe: Boost for Maternity Clinics
THE United Nations Population Fund says it has delivered emergency reproductive kits, medicine and surgical supplies to maternity care units in central hospitals in the country enough to benefit an estimated 900 000 mothers for at least three months.
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Zimbabwe: Chitungwiza Hospital Records 58 Births
CHITUNGWIZA Central Hospital has recorded 58 normal births so far this festive season with 10 having been born on Christmas Day.
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