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

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

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

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Teenage pregnancy is a big problem in South Africa. It is a particularly pernicious problem in rural areas, where young girls hoping to escape poverty make easy prey for older men, known here as ...

The fifth edition of the Integrated Maternal and Perinatal Care Guidelines for South Africa, released by the health ...