"It's a painful thing," he says. "You're basically invisible. You don't exist. It's like you're living in the shadows. You ...

One out of every six children in Africa dies before the age of five. For African women, the chance of dying in childbirth is three times higher... In Africa, Overcoming the Risks of Childbirth ...

No hospitals in the Gauteng province of South Africa have any record of the decuplets being born, government officials said.

In many developed countries, a birth certificate is a given, but in many African countries, obtaining one is not the norm. In sub-Saharan Africa, according to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), only ...

The number of teenage mothers who gave birth on Christmas Day has increased, raising concern regarding adolescent pregnancy ...

Women in sub-Saharan Africa continue to have an elevated risk of death following childbirth long after the 42-day postpartum limit the WHO uses to define pregnancy-related deaths, a new analysis shows ...

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With recent reports of difficult pregnancies and births from celebrities like Beyonce, Serena Williams, and Alyson Felix, and the death of Olympian Tori Bowie during childbirth, the long-overlooked ...