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Maternal Mortality Rate In Five Districts 55% Higher Than State Average

A 13-year-old girl in Koppal who was married off at the age of 12 and got pregnant when she was 13, died even before she could get a grasp on life. While her body couldn't ...

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Health

Maternal Deaths Come Down In Haryana

After a decline in the infant mortality rate, the health department has recorded a 28.8 % decrease in maternal mortality rate during 2015-16, though it is more than Delhi's...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - Precious Friendships

Two books about enduring friendships, both beautiful and heartwarming are very different—one about two female friends and the other about four male friends.  The...

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Health

Breastfeed, For Keeping Newborns Free Of Infections

A new study based on data collected from the city claims breastfeeding within one hour of birth prevents neonatal sepsis
Here is another reason for mothers to breastfe...

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Health

Trichy Switches To IPV In Polio Fight

On the first day of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) immunization drive in Trichy district, 436 children below the age of 1 in urban and rural areas were administered the in...

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Gender

The 'Avon Ladies' Of Pakistan Selling Contraception Door To Door

A scheme training local women to deliver birth control pills to homes hopes to reduce maternal mortality and poverty
rom 8am to 4pm, 25-year-old Samina Khaskheli trav...

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Health

Natural Births: Bringing Back The Midwife

Birthing centres like BirthVillage in Kochi are part of a growing trend Dusk-tinted light filters in through the reed curtains covering the large windows of the birthing ro...

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Health

A Big Boost For Public Health

Maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT) is no longer a major public health problem in the World Health Organisation (WHO) South-East Asia region. The WHO South-East Asia Region...

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Human Rights

Most Of India’s Laws On Women Still Archaic, Say Agnes, Nundy

Speaking at the Nandini Satpathy Birth Anniversary Celebration at Soochana Bhawan here Thursday, eminent women’s rights activist Flavia Agnes and renowned Supreme Cou...

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Health

Premature Deliveries, Low Birth Weight Major Causes Of Infant Deaths: Maharashtra Govt Audit

The audit for the Pune circle from April 2015 to March 2016 reported 89 maternal deaths from Pune rural, followed by 59 from Solapur and 25 from Satara. A total of 1,201 in...

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