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Group Pioneers Cheap Tricycles To Transport Women In Labour

Despite huge efforts to bring down maternal and infant mortality and the strides already achieved, one new-born child dies every 15 minutes with 30,000 new-born deaths reco...

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Health

WHO South–East Asia Region Eliminates Maternal And Neonatal Tetanus

In a major public health feat, WHO South-East Asia Region has eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus with all districts across the 11 countries having reduced the cases t...

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Hollywood

Martin Freeman Joins Eat Kind Campaign

Sherlock star Martin Freeman has lent his voice to a new video by animal protection group Humane Society International/UK, to encourage people to take meat off the menu &nd...

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Health

WHO Says Life Expectancy Has Increased By Five Years Since 2000, But Health Inequalities Persist.

Dramatic gains in life expectancy have been made globally since 2000, but major inequalities persist within and among countries, according to this year's 'World Health Stat...

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Human Rights

All Women Deserve Respectful Maternity Care

Respectful maternity care is an integral element of comprehensive, high-quality health services. Yet many women around the world experience disrespectful, abusive, and harm...

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Health

Making A Fundamental Shift In Drug Policy And Harm Reduction

In 1998, the United Nations General Assembly convened a special session under the slogan, “A drug-free world — we can do it!” with the goal of prohibiting...

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Health

Factbox: Women's Health - From Maternal Mortality To Child Marriage

COPENHAGEN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Over 5,000 delegates from 150 countries arrive in Copenhagen this week for Women Deliver - a major global conference on the health...

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Human Rights

Untold Thousands Of Patients Misdiagnosed As Vegetative Are Actually Aware. Theirs Is The Civil Rights Fight Of Our Times

Seasoned nurse came up to me after a lecture I’d given at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She seemed shaken by my talk and I was surprised. She wo...

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Health

Leave No One Behind: Women, Children And Adolescent Health In Emergencies

If you ask anyone to describe home in one word they frequently will respond with either “comfortable” or “safe.” No matter where you live in the wor...

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Environment

The Air In Nearly Every Big City In The Developing World Is Unhealthy To Breathe

Four out of five city-dwellers worldwide live in towns with lousy air, raising the odds of premature death from lung or heart ailments, the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

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