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Reproductive Freedom For The World's Poorest Women

At the heart of maternal health and child survival is a healthy woman. Protecting every woman’s right to access family planning and reproductive-health services is cr...

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India Will Miss MDG Target On Maternal Mortality: CBHI Report?

India will miss its Millenium Development Goal (MDG) target of reducing maternal mortality rate to 109 per 1,00,000 live births, according to National Health Profile-2015, ...

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Why Young Women All Over The World Are Still Dying In Childbirth

By the time the pregnant 17 years old arrives at a hospital in Sierra Leone, it is already too late. Her baby has died—maybe the day before, maybe even longer. She ha...

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Uttar Pradesh To Get 'M-Sakhi' App Aimed At Improving Maternal Health.

A mobile application ‘m-sakhi’ will be launched in five districts of Uttar Pradesh from October, to streamline and supervise the work of ASHA, ANM and anganwadi...

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Why It's Crucial To Engage Men In Maternal Health

Later this month, the world’s 193 nations will formally endorse an ambitious set of sustainable development goals (SDG) aimed primarily at ending global poverty, symb...

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India Performs Badly In Breastfeeding, Ensuring Healthy Diet To Children

India has shown little improvement in breastfeeding infants and ensuring healthy diet to young children, a report by the Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India (BPNI) and...

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India Fixes Health Goals For Next 15 Years.

India has set itself a challenging target to reduce maternal mortality rate to 70 per 1000 live births, and for neonatal and under-five to 12 and 25 per 1,000 births respec...

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Global ‘Call To Action Summit 2015’ Adopts DELHI DECLARATION To End Preventable Maternal And Child Deaths

The two-day global ‘Call to Action Summit 2015’ concluded today with Health Ministers and heads of country delegations from 22 countries adopting the DELHI DECL...

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Jharkhand At India’s Heart Of Maternal-Care Darkness.

This week, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced – quoting the World Health Organisation (WHO) – that India was free of maternal and neo-natal tetanus, the ...

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India Renewing Commitment To End Child And Maternal Deaths

Aaapathyaam raksha garbhineem (may the pregnant woman and her child be saved from all dangers) is at the core of our Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent H...

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