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Risking Lives Of Mothers & Children': India Condemned For Cuts To Benefits

Campaigners warn of damaging effect of scaling back a maternal payment scheme introduced to stem high death rates among infants and mothers Campaigners have warned that the...

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Maternal Healthcare Expenses Push 46.6% Mothers In India Into Poverty: study

Maternal healthcare expenses push 46.6% mothers in India into poverty – with the illiterate being especially susceptible – according to this December 2016 study...

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Making Health Care Accessible

Aneema Begum, 61, had the last of her three children 38 years ago. The first two didn’t survive more than a year, and it is after the birth of her last, and only surv...

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Poor access to maternal healthcare for Assam Adivasi women: report

A report on access to healthcare of Adivasi women working in tea gardens in northern Assam’s Sonitpur district has revealed that they face many obstacles like corrupt...

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Improving child and maternal health care in rural areas

Taking a leaf out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi?? pioneering Digital India campaign, HLFPPT has launched an innovative e-ASHA training programme in the remote Suvali bloc...

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Mother’s hair could hold key to preventing underdeveloped babies

Scientists at Gravida, Auckland University’s National Centre for brain Growth and Development, have discovered that chemicals in the hair of pregnant women may increa...

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Health

Almost 900 doctors sign Dublin Declaration, affirm abortion is not maternal health

Almost 900 medical professionals have now signed the Dublin Declaration on Maternal Health, launched in 2012 to declare that abortion is not needed to save women’s li...

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Health

Child Lives: The Pulitzer Center’s Interactive Map on Childhood Mortality

It’s the nature of journalism to focus on what’s wrong and in a world that’s full of violence and suffering there’s no shortage of subjects. A new P...

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Health

Doctor appeals to husbands to interest in nutrition of pregnant wives

Dr. Francis Zotor, Acting Dean of School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), Thursday advised men to show interest in the nutrition of their ...

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