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Slums dwellers take lead on maternal deaths

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Just a few months before the government releases the 2009 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey, statistics are already indicating that the magnitude of the maternal mortality in the country might not be good.

 

Husbands batter women for not conceiving

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An increasing number of women are experiencing serious verbal, emotional and physical violence meted by their husbands and in-laws, all because they are believed to be infertile. Picture by Ophelia Cherry

One evening early 2003 over a sumptuous dinner in quite restaurant in town, Janet and her husband had a pleasant discussion on the number of children they wanted to have and how to raise them. By the end of that year, they agreed, Janet was to be expectant.

 

Fears of HIV+ children as women go without family planning

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ImageHIV and AIDS researchers are sounding an alarm over the large numbers of HIV positive women not accessing family planning services, warning that the figures of unintended pregnancies and children born with HIV are likely to rise.

 

 

Worry as women abandon using family planning

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The new trend is likely to result in increased number of women with unintended pregnancies, which may end up in unsafe abortions and deaths, pushing up the country’s maternal mortality rate, the experts warn. Photo by Brian Hoskins

A record number of Kenyan women are abandoning the use of family planning methods a few weeks or months after picking them from government health facilities, a move that has shocked reproductive health experts.

 

 

Couple's desperate hunt for quality donated sperm

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Dr. Joshua Noreh of Nairobi IVF Centre operates the semen analyzer, a machine used to determine whether a man is infertile or not.

Fertility experts are appealing to well educated and professional men to come out and donate sperms to meet the demand and the preferences of an increasing number of couples and single women looking for sperms from a particular breed of people.

 

 
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