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More education among women helps reduce maternal and child mortality in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is a classic case of a low- and middle-income country achieving the unachievable which many others failed to. It reduced its maternal mortality by 66 per cent be...
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India, US and Ethiopia Join Hands to Fight Child, Maternal Deaths
India, the United States and Ethiopia have joined hands to address the global challenge of child and maternal deaths in particular in the third world countries. Union Healt...
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A Renewed Call for Child and Maternal Health
At the Saving Every Woman, Every Child summit held in Toronto, Canada last month, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank Group asserted, “We stand today on a c...
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Harsh Vardhan outlines key to reduce maternal and child deaths
Asserting that the goal of ending preventable child and maternal deaths by 2035 is well within reach, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has outlined six key actions to ac...
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How technology can save India’s vanishing generation
For India’s children, the journey from a crib to grave is indeed very short. A Save the Children study has reported that over three lakh babies die on their first-day...
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Maternal Deaths Falling, But Not Fast Enough: WHO
“There is still one woman dying every one and a half to two minutes somewhere in the world … Because she is trying to give life,” said Marleen Temmerman,...
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Nigeria, others contribute 60% to global maternal deaths
Nigeria and nine other countries contribute about 60 per cent of the global maternal mortality burden, the World Health Organization has said. Media Officer, Development Co...
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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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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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