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ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | Women are more likely to have children in the same month as their own birth, and now researchers think they might know why. Births within immediate families tend to cluster within a given month, according to data on more than 10 million deliveries in France and Spain. …

Cairo, Egypt | Xinhua |  Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Thursday instructed the country’s medical sector to receive Palestinian newborns from the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip that suspended its operation on Nov. 11 after it ran out of fuel. To implement the directives of …

Poor maternal health and malnutrition underpin the high numbers London, UK | THE INDEPENDENT | An estimated 13.4 million babies were born early (before 37 full weeks of pregnancy) in 2020  which is around 1 in 10 of all live births – according to a detailed study published in the Lancet …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is a need to clamp down on the formula milk industry’s marketing tactics which are exploitative, according to a new three-paper series published in The Lancet. The paper points out industry influence which includes lobbying against vital breastfeeding support measures as one of the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A local food rights organization has filed a constitutional petition challenging the government’s inaction on regulating workplaces and breastfeeding. Their petition highlights gaps in the legal regime affecting the ability of mothers to breastfeed their babies for the recommended six months of exclusive breast milk. David …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER Hell in Karamoja: Does sub-region require military response only? THE LAST WORD Aiding the enemy: How US involvement in the Russia-Ukraine conflict is helping the rise of China to surpass America as the world’s …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As the Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) Examinations enter their third week, the body charged with organizing them has hailed several pregnant candidates for overcoming the odds to write their O levels. The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) in a statement today on social media, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | While nurses, midwives, pediatricians and other health workers in Uganda everyday keep preaching to mothers to breastfeed their babies exclusively for at least six months, they themselves cannot accord their babies the same care essential for their good health and mental development. The health workers …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Researchers have urged the government to fast-track the use of the electronic partograph, a digital tool that helps in monitoring the progress of labor in expectant mothers. This will help to improve health outcomes in maternity care. The Makerere University-based scientists who were releasing results …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More mothers from Karamoja sub-region are now delivering their babies from health facilities according to Dr Charles Nuwagaba, a health expert attached to the Drylands Integrated Development Project funded by the Office of the Prime Minister. Dr Nuwagaba told URN that health facility deliveries which …