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Bookmark or Share- Nutrition counselling during pregnancy - World Health Organization (WHO)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:
- Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal ...Pregnant women do not seem to be at higher risk of getting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. However, studies have shown an increased risk of developing severe COVID-19 if they are infected, compared with non-pregnant women of a similar age. COVID-19 during pregnancy has also been associated with an increased likelihood of preterm birth.
- Hepatitis: Preventing mother-to-child transmission of the hepatitis B virusExperience from elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis suggests that providing testing for pregnant women followed by antiviral prophylaxis for eligible women to prevent infection is feasible. Programmes aimed at preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV are the most mature and have shown remarkable success.
- Maternal health - World Health Organization (WHO)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.
- Adolescent pregnancy - World Health Organization (WHO)Even within countries, there are enormous variations, for example in Zambia the percentage of adolescent girls aged 15–19 who have begun childbearing (women who either have had a birth or are pregnant at the time of interview) ranged from 14.9% in Lusaka to 42.5% in the Southern Province in 2018 (4).
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