Pre-natal Care

In an effort to encourage women to have more pre-natal visits and receive pre-natal care like, "early treatment for H.I.V., syphilis, and high blood pressure, as well as vaccines like tetanus and vitamins like folic acid" (The New York Times, McNeil). Throughout a woman's pregnancy living in a rural community, she will consult a traditional healer. Bridge to Health Medical and Dental, a medical charity, is hoping to persuade women to visit their free clinics by offering ultrasounds where women would be able to see their babies. In an effort to make the ultrasounds more portable, the doctors hope to obtain scanners that plug into smartphones that would project the images onto their phones and then also connect to printers, so the women can take picture home with them.

When reading this article, I found it to have a Western bias. For example, the way in which the women in Uganda were being described was very primitive. The women were portrayed in a generalized way as being poorly educated and that the only way they would go to the clinics is if they were told that it was magic. The subject of this article about pre-natal care was interesting, but the language and tone of the article was a bit simplistic and ethnocentric towards the female patients.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/health/africa-clinics-ultrasounds-women.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fafrica&action=click&contentCollection=africa&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront