A large cohort study across The Gambia, Kenya and Mozambique finds that households without piped water or improved sanitation ...

The entrance to a maternity hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nairobi, Kenya, on July 15, 2020. Photo by: Baz Ratner / Reuters Pregnant women who were hospitalized with COVID-19 in sub-Saharan ...

Pregnancy puts women at higher risk of severe medical complications or death from COVID-19, according to a new study of more than 1,300 women in sub-Saharan Africa. Researchers argue that vaccinating ...

The rates of adolescent pregnancies in sub-Saharan Africa are among the world’s highest. The adolescent birth rate is as high as 139 per 1,000 girls in Tanzania and 96 per 1,000 in Kenya. This is ...

For the last decade, there has been attention to the troublesome fact that African American women have more problematic pregnancies than do white women. And, while in the U.S. pregnancy outcomes are ...

Pregnant people who are hospitalized with COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa are dying at a rate far greater than pregnant people without COVID-19 and non-pregnant people with COVID-19, according to a new ...