Cotonou, Benin (CNN)As you walk through the fading white gates of the Association Saint Camille de Lellis, named after the patron of the sick, you are consumed by the buzz of activity everywhere. Just ...

African American women have a significantly increased risk of stroke and death during pregnancy and childbirth or in the period right after birth, compared to the risk of stroke among white women, ...

Pre-eclampsia is a danger to pregnant women. It's a complication characterized by high blood pressure and organ damage, arising during the second half of pregnancy, in labor or in the first week after ...

For the last decade, there has been attention to the troublesome fact that African American women have more problematic pregnancies than do white women. And, while in the U.S. pregnancy outcomes are ...

Among African adolescent girls and young women who took HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) daily, levels of the PrEP drug tenofovir were more than 30% lower in those who were pregnant than in those ...

Manasi Kumar receives funding from US National Institutes of Health, Fogarty International Centre and UK National Institute of Health Research. The rates of adolescent pregnancies in sub-Saharan ...

An estimated 12 million teenage pregnancies are reported globally every year. Girls and young women in this age group face multiple risk factors that contribute to early pregnancies. These include a ...

For the last decade, there has been attention to the troublesome fact that African American women have more problematic pregnancies than do white women. And, while in the U.S. pregnancy outcomes are ...