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Maternal health. Maternal health refers to the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period. Each stage should be a positive experience, ensuring women and their babies reach their full potential for health and well-being. Although important progress has been made in the last two decades, about 287 000 women died during ...
Promoting healthy pregnancy. Antenatal care - regular contact with skilled health personnel during pregnancy - is a core component of maternity care, grounded in a human rights-based approach. WHO recommends that women should have eight contacts with a health provider during pregnancy to screen for potential complications and treat problems as ...
Hepatitis: Preventing mother-to-child transmission of the hepatitis B virus. Hepatitis B is a viral infection that affects the liver and can cause both acute and chronic infection. Most people with HBV infection do not experience any symptoms when newly infected. A proportion of people develop chronic infection, which can then lead to ...
Maintaining good nutrition and a healthy diet during pregnancy is critical for the health of the mother and unborn child. Nutrition education and counselling is a widely used strategy to improve the nutritional status of women during pregnancy. The strategy focuses primarily on:
All pregnant and postpartum women and their newborns, including those with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infections, have the right to high quality care before, during and after childbirth, including mental health care. A safe and positive childbirth experience includes: mobility in labour where possible, and birth position of choice.
Pregnant women require additional iron and folic acid to meet their own nutritional needs as well as those of the developing fetus. Deficiencies in iron and folic acid during pregnancy can potentially negatively impact the health of the mother, her pregnancy, as well as fetal development.
Adolescent pregnancy is a global phenomenon with clearly known causes and serious health, social and economic consequences to individuals, families and communities. There is consensus on the evidence-based actions needed to prevent it. There is growing global, regional and national commitment to preventing child marriage and adolescent ...
Mother-to-child transmission of syphilis, or congenital syphilis, is usually devastating to the fetus if maternal infection is not detected and treated sufficiently early in the pregnancy.
The transmission of HIV from a HIV-positive mother to her child during pregnancy, labour, delivery or breastfeeding is called mother-to-child transmission. In the absence of intervention, transmission rate ranges from 15% to 45%.
Try to eat a variety of foods such as green and orange vegetables, milk, meat, poultry, fish, beans, nuts, whole grains and fruit. Take supplements, like folic acid and iron, as advised by a health worker. Make sure food is safe and clean.