Dr. Bouchra Assarag (a Moroccan PhD student of the W&CHRC, ITM) interviewed plenty of women in Morocco’s remote mountainous region of Al Haouz for her PhD research. Her studies show that 60% of women have at least one health problem related to child birth at six weeks post-partum. A team of … Read more »
On 23 and 24 November 2015, the members of the Research Network on SRH including 5 West and 3 North African countries and Belgium (supported by the Belgian Development Cooperation) met in Rabat, Morocco. At the end of the second year since the Network was launched it was important to … Read more »
The Partnership for Maternal Newborn & Child Health (The Partnership) is soliciting applications for the United Nations Secretary General’s Independent Accountability Panel (IAP) for the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescent’s Health. The deadline for applications is 18th November 2015. The IAP is the principal advisory group to the … Read more »
The implications of obesity in pregnancy for low resource settings have been highlighted by Bettina Utz and Vincent De Brouwere in a recently published correspondence to the Lancet. As highlighted by William Dietz and colleagues in the recent Lancet Obesity Series, the obesity pandemic is no longer a problem only … Read more »
