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TANZANIA: Home deliveries contribute to mother, child deaths

Thursday, February 26, 2009

More than half Zanzibar’s mothers deliver their children at home without access to medical help at health facilities, an official said. "Fewer than...

Extreme risks for pregnant women and newborns in developing countries – UNICEF Pregnancy 300 times deadlier in least developed world

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Women in the world’s least developed countries are 300 times more likely to die in childbirth or from pregnancy-related complications than women in...

SoS Njie calls for attention on infant health

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Dr Malick Njie, the secretary of state for Health and Social Welfare has said that the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on child mortality reduction...

Breaking news

Friday, August 08, 2008

A third newborn in President’s Jammeh Infertility Treatment Programme has been announced. The mother of the baby girl has been identified as Mariama...

Mother commits infanticide

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

One Isatou Fatty was, yesterday, paraded before the Brikama Magistrates Court, for allegedly dumping her newborn in a toilet pit, after giving birth...

VP gives to namesake

Friday, July 18, 2008

A high powered delegation led by Alpha A Khan, who represented the vice-president, yesterday, visited the Sumbundu family at Alikali Village, where ...

Newborn in Infertility Treatment

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Aja Sumbundu of Nema Alikali, a village near Wellingara, Kanifing Municipality, who was one of the patients in the Infertility Treatment Programme of...

Judgement in infanticide trial

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Senior Magistrate Kumba Sillah-Camara of the Bundung Magistrates Court has convicted and sentenced one Binta Jatta, to a two-year jail term...

VP Njie Saidy Hands Over Gifts to Newborn Babies

The Point

Friday, January 04, 2008

The Vice-President Dr. Isatou Njie Saidy, on behalf of the First Lady Madam Zeinab Jammeh, handed over gifts and cash to four mothers of newly born...