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The Labour Room Bullies
Obstetric violence, the abuse of pregnant women by health workers, is shockingly common in the Indian medical system though it is rarely talked about. Recently, three infan...
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A Record 290 Million Women, Girls In Poor Nations Are Using Contraception: Report
A record 290.6 million women and girls in the world's poorest nations are using modern methods of contraception, averting millions of unintended pregnancies and unsafe abor...
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Maternal Mortality On A Decline, But Challenges Remain
The number of women dying during pregnancy, childbirth or within six weeks after birth has fallen by 44 per cent since 1990, say United Nations agencies, including the...
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Making Health Care Accessible
Aneema Begum, 61, had the last of her three children 38 years ago. The first two didn’t survive more than a year, and it is after the birth of her last, and only surv...
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Measuring The Millennium Development Goals: Cutting Maternal Deaths
Becoming a mother in sub-Saharan Africa is more dangerous than climbing Mount Everest. In Chad, the odds of dying during pregnancy or childbirth are one in 15; in Sierra Le...
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Where The Girls Are (And Aren’t): #15Girls
The world’s girls are healthier than ever. They live longer and more of them are going to school than at any time in history.In some cases, it starts even before they...
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Five Majors Announce Project ĀSMĀN To Reduce Maternal And Newborn Mortality In India
Project ĀSMĀN, a major healthcare initiative aimed at reducing infant, neonatal and maternal mortality in India, was launched on November 3, 2015 by a consortium of leadi...
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Tribal Daughters Get Access To Wealth And Health
Members of the Kishori Mandal in Ranchi district get together once every week to review their micro-credit accounting and then discuss issues like eating healthy meals or s...
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Skin-To-Skin Contact With Baby In Neonatal Unit Decreases Maternal Stress Levels
WASHINGTON, DC – Research shows that stable parent-child bonds are fundamental to healthy child development. For parents of babies born prematurely or with special me...
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The Breast Milk Elixir
Current estimates backed by the World Health Organization and Unicef are that optimal breast-feeding would save 800,000 children’s lives a year in developing countrie...
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