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Burden of birth
Maternal deaths in Bihar go unreported, while state claims maternal mortality ratio has decreased Urvi Devi, 20, was in her ninth month of pregnancy. She woke up one night ...
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Decline of Child, Maternal Mortality Rate in India Fast: Report
India reduced child and maternal mortality since 2000 at a rate faster than the global one but it still needs to do a lot more, according to studies conducted by a US-based...
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India sees decline in maternal and child deaths
Two-thirds of the global decline in child deaths since 2000 occurred in just nine countries – India, China, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Afghani...
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Ending newborn deaths: ensuring every baby survives
The first 24 hours of a child’s life are the most dangerous, with more than one million babies dying each year on their first and only day of life, according to new r...
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Delivering safety
All safe motherhood programmes of the government are focused on institutional deliveries, but health centres are in disarray. Experts suggest ways to reduce deaths during d...
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Viral diseases to surge in coming years due to climate change, report says
US scientists have warned India of increased incidence of infectious and vector-borne diseases in coming years due to climate change. According to a report on climate chang...
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World Health Day 2014: Prevention and control
World Health Day is observed each year on April 7. The theme chosen for this year is Vector-borne diseases. Vectors are organisms that transmit pathogens and parasites from...
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To Lower Maternal Deaths, India Urged to Reconsider Role of Midwives
In this village 30 miles south of Kolkata, three generations of women have depended on Saira Bewa to deliver their babies. On a languid July afternoon, Ms. Saira, 61, squat...
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Victoria Beckham Donates Daughter’s Clothes To Charity
Twenty-five specially curated outfits pulled together by world renowned designer and mum Victoria Beckham from the wardrobe of arguably the most stylish little girl in the ...
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Non-city residents ‘contributing to high maternal mortality rates in Mumbai’
The maternal mortality rate in Mumbai is being distorted by patients from outside the city, an official has stated. According to Dr Padmaja Keskar, deputy executive health ...
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