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Improving Rural Health Care, One Boat Trip At A Time
More than 10 years ago, Sanjoy Hazarika heard about the death of a mother in a remote island in Assam, a state in northeast India, because she couldn’t get to the hospit...
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Almost A Year After Eliminating Polio, India Declared Free Of Maternal And Neonatal Tetanus
NEW DELHI- In yet another major achievement, India has been declared free of maternal and neonatal tetanus. Calling it a “significant public health milestone”, the...
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BMC, MDACS Join Hands To Eliminate New HIV Cases
Building on the success of the Pulse Polio programme, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has begun work on total eradication of new HIV cases and aims to achieve thi...
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Spurt in HIV Positive Cases Rings Alarm Bells in Bengal
West Bengal is fast becoming a high-risk HIV positive state. According to statistics for the last two years available with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, West Beng...
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Inequality Has Transformed Surviving Childhood Into A Global Postcode Lottery
Children?? lives are shaped by social and economic factors that often differ wildly between and within countries ??a grim reality that only a skilled, readily available health...
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India Partners With American NGO To Meet Its Maternal Health Goals
To alleviate the issue of maternal and infant deaths in India, the government launched a unique MAMTA card in Rajasthan and Gujarat a couple of years ago. The card tracks crit...
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Government to form labour room guidelines to reduce Maternal Mortality Rates
NEW DELHI: Government is forming guidelines for labour rooms in hospitals as part of its efforts to reduce the maternal mortality rate (MMR) and infant mortality rate (IMR) in...
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World Health Statistics Reports On Global Health Goals For 194 Countries
13 MAY 2015 | GENEVA - 2015 is the final year for the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ??goals set by governments in 2000 to guide global efforts to end pove...
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After Polio, India Set To Win Battle Against Tetanus At Childbirth
A year after obtaining WHO certification for the elimination of polio, India is on the verge of crossing another milestone in public health. It has eliminated maternal and neo...
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Mumbai: Since 2010, 40% Rise In Maternal Deaths; TB Top Killer
Maternal deaths in Mumbai have increased 40% over the past five years. Data from the civic body, which records these deaths every month, revealed that the top cause of materna...
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