A health system has six interdependent and interrelated pillars: health workforce service delivery information financing medical products vaccines and technologies leadership and governance. This stud...

Although 92 of women receive antenatal care at least once during pregnancy a suitable place of delivery assists only 44 of mothers during childbirth KDHS 2008. Therefore the purpose of this study was ...

The efforts and commitments to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals for maternal and newborn health MDGs 4 and 5 in low and middle income countries have focused primarily on pr...

Maternal mortality is the death of mothers from sources related to pregnancy or within 42 days rnof pregnancy while Maternal Mortality Ratio MMR is sum of deaths of mothers per 100000 rnlive births WH...

The devolved governments in Kenya are confronted with poor service delivery particularlyrnin the arrangement of maternal medical care administrations. Maternal medical carernbenefits in open level 4 h...

Menstruation is an unescapable important and normal part of human life. Despiternmenstruation being an advent of maturity and fertility in girls menstrual hygienernmanagement MHM has been perceived as...

Despite the relatively high antenatal attendance rate the rate of delivery in health facilities is low in Kenya. Only 43 percent of live births in the five years preceding the 2008-09 KDHS took place ...

Teenagers hold the future of society in terms of the provision of societal functionsrndifferentiated by their gender roles and parity. Consequently the excellence of teenagersrnplaces society in a bet...

Elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV is achievable through prevention of mother-to-child transmission PMTCT interventions. For HIV-positive mothers to access PMTCT services they must be ...

Following the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown a surge in teen pregnancies was reported across all counties in Kenya between March and September 2020. In Nyandarua North sub-county ...