Birth registration is a critical foundation for legal identity and the protection of children's rights. ・UNICEF's 2024 report ...

UNICEF is supporting several Sub Saharan African countries including Nigeria as well as nations in other parts on ...

Experts at the UKZN conference highlight alarming rates of adolescent pregnancies in Eastern and Southern Africa ...

The UN agency says some 150 million children remain “invisible” to government systems, with more than half of these in ...

A new report from the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) reveals significant progress in ending the problem of the "invisible" millions of babies each year who go unregistered. Nearly eight in 10 children ...

Manchester midwives are to lead a major research project to improve midwifery services for women and babies in six East African countries. The University of Manchester team will buddy practising ...

"No woman or girl should have to give birth terrified and alone", says Father Patrick Shanahan, founder of Street Child Africa, which helps create safer birthing conditions for girls living and giving ...

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A pilot scheme carried out with 165 midwives in east Africa which has just concluded ... Ultimately this effect will have a significant impact on the outcomes of childbirth for the most vulnerable ...

Human-like relatives two million years ago had it "pretty easy", according to birth reconstruction in a fossil. For Australopithecus sediba, which lived 1.95 million years ago in South Africa ...