Zipline has partnered with the Federal Government to deploy drone delivery services across Nigeria, aiming to reduce maternal mortality, malnutrition, malaria, and other pressing health challenges. The partnership, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, will be officially announced at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on September 26, 2024. The goal…

Field, a leading African healthtech company, has today announced the launch of a route-to-market service that will introduce emerging therapies to tackle the urgency of maternal mortality, newborn and child health, along with nutrition. The initiative will leverage Field’s proprietary technology, distribution, and financing services, which today powers a network of over 40,000 private and…

In a continued effort to combat maternal mortality, the Lagos State Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Saving One Million Lives Programme for Results (SOMLPforR), organised a three-day training for healthcare workers on the active management of the third stage of labour. The training sought to equip…

The Federal Government has expressed concern over the high maternal, and child mortality rate and vowed to reduce the problem through innovations and result-oriented actions in the country. Nigeria had the second-highest number of maternal deaths globally last year, which shows the disparity between health outcomes and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) target of less…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) deems unsafe abortion as one of the preventable causes of maternal mortality as statistics indicate

Maternal mortality rates in northern Nigeria, where more than half of the country's estimated 200 million people live have exceeded the country average, according to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

Groups of women, tagged ‘Mama2Mama’ have been formed at community levels in Bauchi, Gombe, Taraba, Adamawa states to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3 (good health and wellness) – particularly survival of pregnant women and their children to reduce the high rate of maternal mortality in Nigeria.

Amid multi-dimensional challenges threatening the survival of mother and newborn during labour in Nigeria, development agencies and other relevant stakeholders in the maternal health industry are leaving no stone unturned to change the devastating narrative. Significant percentage of pregnant mothers in Nigeria fall victims of the horrific circumstances on a daily basis in the labour…

The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Tunji Alausa, has pledged government’s action to combat the nation’s alarmingly high maternal mortality rate. 

In a significant stride towards combating maternal and child mortality in Lagos State, officials of the Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics Nigeria (SOGON), Lagos sector, paid a courtesy visit to the Ministry of Health

Stakeholders meeting on the sideline of the 57th annual national conference of the Society of Gynaecologists and Obstetrics, (SOGON), have called for increased access to family planning across communities in Kano and Kaduna States for reduced maternal mortality.