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Global ‘Call To Action Summit 2015’ Adopts DELHI DECLARATION To End Preventable Maternal And Child Deaths

The two-day global ‘Call to Action Summit 2015’ concluded today with Health Ministers and heads of country delegations from 22 countries adopting the DELHI DECL...

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Jharkhand At India’s Heart Of Maternal-Care Darkness.

This week, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced – quoting the World Health Organisation (WHO) – that India was free of maternal and neo-natal tetanus, the ...

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India Has Highest Number Of Smokeless Tobacco Deaths, Finds New Study

India accounts for nearly three- fourths of over a quarter million deaths worldwide caused by smokeless tobacco while millions more have their lives shortened due to its il...

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MP Govt To Provide Free Meal To Pregnant Women

With an aim to reduce maternal and infant mortalities and ensure overall maternal health, the Madhya Pradesh (MP) government has decided to provide one free meal every day ...

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‘India’s Abortion Law Should Be Changed To Save Women’, Says Mumbai Doctor Nikhil Datar

India’s abortion law should be urgently changed to prevent women from making ill-informed decisions and risking their lives with illegal pregnancy terminations, a Mum...

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Significant Mother

How Maharashtra laboured for 12 years to bring down the state’s maternal mortality rate by 54% and what it’s doing to become the country’s primary pre and...

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Twitter embraces Modi’s #SelfieWithDaughter call, skips grim gender gap

Social media platforms were flooded with father-daughter selfies thanks to a message from Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his monthly radio address on Sunday. “In...

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Citizen Media Shows Why India Is Unlikely To Reach Its Millennium Goals Target For Maternal Mortality

According to the UN Millennium Development Goals, India should bring down its maternal mortality rate (MMR) to 109 per 100,000 live births by 2015. This is a tough ask, as ...

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Maternal And Infant Health: The Urban Disadvantage

Medscape: This year’s report noted that child mortality rates are at least twice as high among poor urban children compared with their richer counterparts—a gap...

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What Makes Community Health Care Work?

In response to Tuesday’s column about two programs in India that train relatively uneducated women as their villages’ health workers, readers provided an avalan...

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