Kivulini Maternity Centre – News
Maternity Africa’s Kivulini Maternity Centre is located in rural Northern Tanzania, near the city of Arusha. Since ofifically opening in June 2018, the centre has provided a spectrum of quality, evidence-based maternal healthcare services. These include antenatal care, intrapartum care, postnatal care, comprehensive family planning counselling and treatment and 24-hour Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (CEmONC).
At Kivulini Maternity Centre, Maternity Africa also provides surgery for women suffering from obstetric fistula and other birth-induced injuries.
The Centre is equipped with its own laboratory, theatre, pharmacy, wards accommodating up to 56 beds, administrative offices and staff accommodations.
Thanks to the kindness of Maternity Africa’s generous donors, all of the services are provided free of charge to the vulnerable and marginalised women and girls of childbearing age treated at Kivulini Maternity Centre.
Check out some of the latest stories from Kivulini Maternity Centre below.
Monica – successful vesico-vaginal fistula (VVF) repair
Monica, 30, delivered her first baby around five years ago by caesarean section. Three years later, at 40 weeks of her pregnancy, she started labour. However, she could not each a hospital because of transport problems. She remained in labour for more than two days....
Community outreach: Maternity Africa provides basic health education
"Sub-Saharan Africa's health challenges are numerous and wide-ranging. Most sub-Saharan countries face a double burden of traditional, persisting health challenges, such as infectious diseases, malnutrition, and child and maternal mortality, and emerging challenges...
Elizabeth – dry after 14 years of suffering from obstetric fistula
Meet Elizabeth (pictured seated outside her home), from Tanzania’s rural Dodoma Region. She is 45 years old and has two children. Her older child is 19, and her younger one is 14. After delivering her second child, Elizabeth discovered that she could not control...
Solar lights: brightening patients’ lives
With more than 1 billion people – about 14% of the world’s population – still without access to energy, finding affordable ways to get electricity in their homes is crucial if many countries are going to have a reasonable chance at achieving some of the...
Maternity Africa’s midwives educate youngsters about sexual and reproductive health
With 1.7 million people living with HIV in Tanzania (population around 60 million), the country continues to be a global priority for the prevention and treatment of HIV. Over the last two decades, despite wide geographical diversity in absolute levels of...
New service: Screening and treating cervical cancer
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer death in women in sub-Saharan Africa. Cervical cancer, caused by certain strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV), presents a significant public health threat to women on the African...
A Doctor in Africa – new book by Dr Andrew Browning, Founder, Maternity Africa
We are delighted that Dr Andrew Browning's new book describing his many wonderful experiences is now available on Amazon - including for download on Kindle. Proceeds support Andrew's work in Sub-Saharan Africa. UK readers, press here. US readers, press here....
International Day of the Midwife
Maternity Africa appreciates our midwives - and all of our other staff. They are dedicated to making childbirth safe here at Kivulini Maternity Centre in Northern Tanzania, providing quality midwifery care, improving sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and...
Maternity Africa resumes fistula outreach
Maternity Africa's 2021 season of outreach trips and training programme for fistula patient ambassadors is underway in Dodoma Region in the heart of Tanzania. Social Worker Grace and Fistula Nurse Etropia have spent the past couple of days educating the next group of...
Naramatisho
Flying Medical Services transported 39-year-old Naramatisho more than 200 kilometres from her village to Kivulini Maternity Centre. Having high blood pressure complications, she delivered by Caesarian Section. When she arrived, Naramatisho was severely anaemic, and...
Saumu
Meet Saumu, 18, second-born with three siblings. Saumu came from a village to town to look for a job. She works as a housemaid. Her parents live in the village, where they have a small farm to meet their basic needs. Saumu left the village after completing her primary...
Deliveries for 2020: 2,399, up 57%
We are delighted that 2,399 deliveries took place at Kivulini Maternity Centre in 2020! - this is an increase of 57% compared to 1,531 deliveries in 2019. As always, we are thankful to God, our wonderful staff and generous donors who make this possible. Pictured is...
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