At a recent workshop held on 5 October in Cape Town, South Africa, maternal health experts, clinicians, and researchers from across the world — representing the UK, Zambia, Sierra Leone, India, Brazil, and South America — came together under the banner of the Papagaio project to chart a bold way forward in tackling one of […]
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The CRIBS Global team of doctors and midwives from Sierra Leone, Zambia, India, Brazil and the UK congregated in Cape Town during October to attend the FIGO Conference taking place there. CRIBS Global is a consortium coordinated by Kings that includes several ongoing and new projects. They include the current Papagaio NIHR global research group,
Dr Cristina Fernandez Turienzo, a nurse, midwife and senior research fellow at the Department of Women and Children’s Health, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, has received the prestigious FUDEN Nursing in Development Award 2025. The award was presented at a major gala in Madrid, Spain. FUDEN (Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Enfermería) is
She was just a teenager when she first knew fear, shame, and the sharp edge of a system that often turns its back on young mothers. Mangenda Kamara’s story begins in Sierra Leone, a country where adolescent pregnancy carries an outsized risk, and where one in ten pregnant teens in parts of Freetown was found
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