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WHO Doubles Recommended Number Of Health Visits During Pregnancy

The World Health Organization revised guidelines on antenatal care on Monday, saying pregnant women should have twice as many contacts with health providers - eight - as it...

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Human Rights

No Mother Left Behind: How Conflict Exacerbates The Global Maternal Health Challenge

DOT-MOM No Mother Left Behind: How Conflict Exacerbates the Global Maternal Health Challenge November 7, 2016 By Nancy Chong AMISOM-clinic Since the end of World War II, th...

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Human Rights

3 Tips To Design Tax Policies For Healthier Diets

When using taxes to promote healthier diets, policymakers are faced with considerations such as what products to tax, what type of tax to implement and what substitutes or ...

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Health

WHO Calls For Higher Taxes On Sugary Drinks

The World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries on Tuesday to raise taxes on sugary drinks it blames for fuelling global epidemics of obesity and diabetes, saying this ...

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Human Rights

UN Resolution Calls For A Human Rights Approach To Mental Health Services

We are thrilled about a new Resolution on Mental Health and Human Rights, adopted by the UN Human Rights Council on 01 July 2016, which calls on Member States to view menta...

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Environment

'Link Up Public Health With The Climate Change Agenda'

The global health and climate community met in Paris last week to highlight the insidious link between health and climate change and demand more explicit recognition of thi...

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Health

Need For A Robust Steel Framework For Health In India

The latest edition of Unicef’s State of the World’s Children report suggests that 1.2 million children under the age of five died of totally preventable disease...

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Health

What Is Missing On The Global Health Front?

The last World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva (23-28 May) discussed the manifold global health crises that require urgent attention, and adopted resolutions to act on many...

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Health

India To Vaccinate 300,000 Children After Polio Strain Found In Sewage

India plans to urgently immunize around 300,000 children against the crippling polio virus after a strain of the highly contagious disease was detected in sewage in the sou...

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Health

One Indian Woman Dies Every 5 Minutes From Postpartum Hemorrhage

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that, of the 529,000 maternal deaths occurring every year, 136,000 or 25.7 per cent take place in India (one Indian woman dies...

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