Africa: Africa's Hidden Stillbirth Crisis - New Report Exposes Major Policy, Data Gaps: [Daily News] Africa -- NEARLY one million babies are stillborn in Africa every year. Behind every stillbirth is a mother, a family and a story left untold. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TQHnsP #StillbirthAwareness #MaternalHealth #AfricanHealth #InfantMortality #HealthcarePolicy
Barnaby Joyce and Andrew Hastie rebuked for ‘playing politics’ on abortion in debate on stillbirth leave

Experts warn the fearmongering about late-term terminations is straight out of the anti-abortion handbook

The Guardian
Africa: UCT Tackles Africa's Stilbirth Crisis: [Namibian] The University of Cape Town (UCT) is spearheading a vital initiative to combat the alarming stillbirth crisis in Africa, which claims nearly one million lives annually, primarily from preventable causes. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TNxktt #StillbirthAwareness #UCT #AfricaHealth #MaternalHealth #ChildHealth

Even in grief, one voice can carry us forward. 🌹
A mother’s raw words reminded me: we don’t have to choose between sorrow and life. We can live with grief—and in that, we honor the love that never leaves us. #GriefJourney #FaithAfterLoss #InfantLossAwareness #StillbirthAwareness #GriefAndHealing

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Faith After the Storm

Grief can hollow us, but sometimes the courage of another lights a way forward. In a grieving parent’s raw words, I found faith that doesn’t erase sorrow but teaches us how to live with it. Her story reminds us: love remains, and community carries us through loss.

Poetic Bipolar Mind
Africa: Decades of Progress in Reducing Child Deaths and Stillbirths Under Threat, Warns the United Nations: [WHO] The number of children dying globally before their fifth birthday declined to 4.8 million in 2023, while stillbirths declined modestly, still remaining around 1.9 million, according to two new reports released today by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJkZGg #ChildMortality #StillbirthAwareness #GlobalHealth #UNICEF #HealthForAll