Most parts of world saw maternal mortality rates spike in 2020
Reuters Maternal mortality rates climbed or stagnated in nearly all regions across the world in 2020, according to a report released by UN agencies on Wednesday, marking a major setback in global efforts to combat complications during childbirth or pregnancy. The report, which tracks maternal mortality nationally, regionally and globally from 2000 to 2020, showed […]
Britain urged to enshrine paid leave post-miscarriage
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Britain should change the law so all working parents who miscarry get paid leave, pressure groups said on Thursday, after a clutch of companies began offering their staff time off after a lost pregnancy. An estimated one in eight pregnancies ends in miscarriage – most in the first trimester – but […]
Call for more midwives as millions die in childbirth
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Midwives are routinely “overlooked and ignored” despite saving millions of lives a year, the United Nations said on Wednesday, urging the world to hire more women and safeguard new life. In a joint report compiled with medics, the UN said urgent investment was needed to plug a global shortfall of some […]
Ugandan medics deploy AI to stop women dying after childbirth
Nairobi, KenyaThomson Reuters Foundation Ugandan doctors are giving new mothers artificial intelligence-enabled devices to remotely monitor their health in a first-of-its-kind study aiming to curb thousands of preventable maternal deaths across Africa, medics and developers said. Doctors at Mbarara Hospital in western Uganda will give devices to more than 1,000 women who have undergone caesarean […]