From the fear of trauma and pain to concerns about pelvic health or a desire for control, mothers share why they are choosing ...

"In an ideal world, an unassisted childbirth wouldn’t have been our first choice, but it turned out to be the best decision ...

Global maternal mortality had declined, yet WHO data showed Nigeria, Chad, and South Sudan remained among the worst countries ...

From night nurses to upcountry birth attendants, mothers are paying to reclaim the support the city denied them ...

Officials at the US Department of Health and Human Services, which awarded funding for the controversial study, say it will ...

A planned U.S.-funded study of a hepatitis B vaccine drew widespread condemnation from researchers. Now the host country says it cannot proceed.

The U.S. is giving $1.6 million to researchers to study how the hepatitis B vaccine affects newborns in Guinea-Bissau. Local ...

One of the critics of the Guinea-Bissau study, Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center in the United States and an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's ...

Hermina lives in the Central African Republic (CAR), Murjanatu in northern Nigeria, and Sabera is a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh. Though they live in vastly different places, the struggles they have ...