Lagos State Government, in collaboration with UNFPA and SOMLPforR, has trained 40 healthcare workers on active management of third-stage labor to combat maternal mortality. The three-day training aimed to equip healthcare workers with skills to manage childbirth and postpartum complications, focusing on preventing excessive bleeding, a leading cause of maternal deaths in Nigeria. The training, … Read more
Over 53,000 women have been examined for Cervical Cancer EKO HOT BLOG reports that no fewer than 200 health workers drawn from 60 public health facilities including the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), 15 General Hospitals and 44 Primary Health Care Centres have been trained to provide breast and cervical cancer screening for citizens … Read more
At least three people were killed, including a young girl, in an attack Wednesday on a children’s hospital in Mariupol in southern Ukraine In 24 of the reported attacks, health care facilities were damaged or destroyed, while in five cases ambulances were hit… EKO HOT BLOG reports that UN agencies on Sunday called for an … Read more
A civil society group volunteering for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Beulah Future Leaders Foundation, has trained over one hundred women and female school children on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Kaduna State, Nigeria. The training sessions, which were in collaboration with the Kaduna State Government through its community engagement, was necessitated … Read more
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) on Saturday says about 47 million women in low and middle-income countries were likely to be deprived of contraceptives as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr Natalia Kanem, Executive Director, UNFPA, made this known in a statement released by Mrs Kori Habib, the Media Associate of the fund in … Read more