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Housing environment and early childhood development in sub-Saharan Africa: A cross-sectional analysis
Yaqing Gao, Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health/National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
Affiliation University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation International Maternal and Child Health, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health/National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
Photo by David Veksler on Unsplash
While the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown has affected families in many different ways, one of the hallmarks of the past year has been the mandatory use of face masks.
These are designed to curb the spread of the virus by preventing droplets from leaving our noses and mouths and potentially spreading infection to others.
This may be a good thing, but they also obscure our faces, and while for adults and older children this hasn t affected our relationships much, many parents have concerns about how they are affecting our babies.
Long term impacts
Baby Harvesting/trafficking: Time For National Dialogue And Collective Action-Rise-Ghana
By RISE Ghana Listen to article
Globally, an estimated 580 (approximately 5-8% of couples) million people experience infertility, with more than half, 372 million in lower and middle-income countries (WHO, 2004). Africa has the largest burden of 10-32% of infertile couples (Okonofua, 2005).
On 20
th January 2021, the Ghana Medical Council (MDC) and the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) issued a joint statement about the involvement of some medical practitioners, social welfare officers and individuals in what appears to be a complicated syndicate involving baby harvesting and baby selling using trusted government facilities and departments like hospitals and the department of social welfare as a conduit. The disturbing news flooded the nation’s traditional and new media as Ghanaian expressed their shock.