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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]