Essential SRH Checks For Females
At least four antenatal visits are the advice from the World Health Organization to mothers-to-be. It comes against the background of monitoring the health of the woman and the progress […]
Read More Health Staff Backing Contraceptive Promotion
Community Health Aides (CHAs) in St. Ann and St. Mary have completed training in contraceptive methods to improve their knowledge of, and ability to impart information on, each method. Trainers […]
Read More Educational Attainment and Total Fertility Rate
Kingston Metropolitan Area has a total fertility rate of 2.2 that is higher than the national rate. Recently there was confirmation that the country’s total fertility rate (TFR) had dipped […]
Read More Dissemination Commences for Reproductive Health Survey
Findings of the National Family Planning Board’s (NFPB) Reproductive Health Survey 2021 will be disseminated on February 9, 2024 in an event planned for a Kingston-based hotel. The event will […]
Read More Losing Her Figure
Over the last 45 years Jamaica’s population age structure has morphed from a pyramid shape to one with a narrower base, a more rotund mid-section and an increasingly wider top […]
Read More Navigating Yute Chatz, Navigating Life
Yute Expression’s Yute Chatz, a Chatbot launched by the National Family Planning Board’s and collaborators UNICEF and U-Report Jamaica has been operational for the past two months. It is on […]
Read More Skills Upgrade for St. Thomas’s Healthcare Workers
Residents of St. Thomas and its environs have been benefiting from training received in long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC) by community health aides, public health nurses and midwives. The Training Officer […]
Read More PrEParing to take on HIV
The statement reads “Are you PrEPared?” and is scribbled across one of several bright and bold billboards that have appeared islandwide in recent days promoting PrEP, the Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis. While […]
Read More Parenting – The Most Important Job
Parenting is by far the most important job you can be entrusted to perform. Parenting requires patience, time, and the sharing of resources. Admittedly not everyone is cut out to […]
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