UBOMI BUHLE means
“Life is beautiful” in isiXhosa. It serves as the acronym for the project and its intentions of Understanding Birth Outcomes for Mothers and Infants, Building Healthcare by Linking Exposures.
UBOMI BUHLE means “Life is beautiful” in isiXhosa. It serves as the acronym for the project and its intentions of Understanding Birth Outcomes for Mothers and Infants, Building Healthcare by Linking Exposures.
It captures both the essence and the goal of this project of honouring and protecting life at its most critical and vulnerable moments of pregnancy and birth.
The project focuses on improving our understanding of the effects of medicines and vaccines in pregnant women to allow women to make more informed decisions about their and their babies’ health care.
Our vision is through a combination of surveillance, research, health systems strengthening and community engagement, UBOMI BUHLE strives to better understand a woman’s journey through pregnancy, specifically to understand how the medicines she takes affects her health and the health of her child. Ultimately every woman should feel empowered to make decisions about her health and the health of her child with sound knowledge about the benefits and risks of the medicines she needs and takes.
Our goal is to establish a pregnancy exposure registry (PER) in South Africa, employing a series of health system strengthening approaches to monitor the impact of medicines and other exposures in pregnancy on adverse maternal and birth outcomes.
Recognising that good science relies on quality care, the UBOMI BUHLE project has 2 key objectives in order to achieve its goal.
“Life is beautiful” in isiXhosa. It serves as the acronym for the project and its intentions of Understanding Birth Outcomes for Mothers and Infants, Building Healthcare by Linking Exposures.
It captures both the essence and the goal of this project of honouring and protecting life at its most critical and vulnerable moments of pregnancy and birth.
The project focuses on improving our understanding of the effects of medicines and vaccines in pregnant women to allow women to make more informed decisions about their and their babies’ health care.
Through a combination of surveillance, research, health systems strengthening and community engagement, ubomi buhle strives to better understand a woman’s journey through pregnancy, specifically to understand how the medicines she takes affects her health and the health of her child. Ultimately every woman needs to feel empowered to make decisions about her health and the health of her child with sound knowledge about the benefits and risks of the medicines she needs and takes.