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Care the newborn like Kangaroo
The kangaroo mother care (KMC) requires very little investment. While the hospitals and centres have invested in Lycra bands to hold the baby and a recliner for the mother, do...
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Maternal pertussis vaccine during pregnancy protected infants
“Our results provide good evidence for pregnant women and health professionals to make informed decisions about the effectiveness of maternal vaccination in protecting b...
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India’s Lethal Birth Control
There’s no secret to reducing population growth: Women who are informed about and given access to contraception choices have fewer children. Yet India persists in a crue...
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Accent on male sterilisation
Between 2008 and March 2012, the Centre, under its Family Planning Insurance Scheme, had to pay compensation for botched sterilisation procedures which included 438 cases of c...
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The one dollar contraceptive set to make family planning easier
An agreement has been signed which will make contraceptive injections available to women in 69 of the world’s poorest countries. It is an injection – but not as y...
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Smallpox, polio and HIV: the fights we’re winning against infectious disease
Only one human disease, smallpox, has ever been eradicated entirely. But great strides have been made against lots of other major killers You are, probably, incredibly lucky....
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Grand Challenges India organises workshop on maternal and child health in Mumbai
Globally, over 6 million children under the age of five die each year, and approximately 165 million (26%) of the world’s children have stunted growth jeopardizing subse...
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Lost Childhood
A lot of children constantly run away from fractured, abusive homes, explains Paul Sunder Singh of Karunalaya. “They head towards Chennai or Mumbai or Hyderabad, lured b...
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Why Sterilization Is The Most Popular Form Of Family Planning
For women, sterilization is usually done as tubal ligation, a minimally invasive surgery where the Fallopian tubes are cut and tied off. For men, it’s the vasectomy, a p...
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Cases of rising infant deaths in tribal hamlets worry officials
Efforts to counsel Lambada tribal women on the importance of protecting girl child notwithstanding, the Women and Child Welfare Department is worried over the increasing incid...
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