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Emergency Care Essential to Stop Maternal Deaths

I was a gynecologist in Bo, Sierra Leone, when Mariama arrived on a motorcycle in front of our clinic. She was heavily pregnant and pale, sandwiched between her mother and ...

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TN aims to bring down maternal mortality rate, says TNHSP Director

The Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project (TNHSP) is working towards reducing Tamil Nadu’s maternal mortality rate (MMR) to 45 per one lakh live births by 2017 from the c...

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Maternal deaths come down by 11 points

PATNA: Bihar has registered a decline of 11 points in the maternal mortality rate between 2011- 13. According to figures released by Registrar General of India this week, 2...

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New WHO goals to focus on maternal mortality

In a special meeting for sustainable development in September, the World Health Organisation (WHO) will discuss the goals for the next 15 years. “It wants to end prev...

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Family Planning and Reproductive Health

More than 222 million women worldwide want to avoid pregnancy, but are not using a modern method of contraception. Enabling couples to determine whether, when and how often...

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Software to review maternal deaths to be launched in 4 dists

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare will implement maternal death review (MDR) software as a pilot project in Srinagar, Kulgam, and Jammu, Ramban districts. The...

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National Seminar on Tribal Health Issues

More than a decade of research has shown that small and affordable measures can significantly reduce the health risks that women face when they become pregnant. Most matern...

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Conditions caused due to poor sanitation the reason for large number of maternal and newborn deaths

Lack of safe water, sanitation and hygiene in birth settings is killing mothers and newborns in the developing world, shows a new study. In a flagship paper, 16 researchers...

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Mother?? Death Shows Bribes Buy India Worst G-20 Maternal Care

Aid organization Save the Children puts India last in the G-20 in its Mothers??Index, which measures pregnancy-related deaths; child mortality; and the economic, educationa...

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Maternal deaths on the rise in Almora district

The number of maternal deaths in Almora district is on the rise as despite special provisions in the National Health Mission to protect mothers and children post-delivery, ...

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