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 of her pregnancy allowing for medical interventions, if necessary. One...

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 from the National Family Planning Board (NFPB) guided the on-the-ground...

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 below replacement level of 2.1 for the first time in...

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 highlight several issues concerning the status of sexual and reproductive...

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 representing the older persons.  This change in her shape has...

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 the UNICEF platform and powered by UNICEF and UNAIDS. The...

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 at the National Family Planning Board (NFPB) reported that the...

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 many people look on quizzically the question resonates with workers...

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 be a parent.  But for some people it is a...