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MDG Goal #5 Improving maternal health by cutting maternal mortality by three-quarters by 2015 and guaranteeing universal access to reproductive health is often called the heart of the MDGs, because if it fails, the other MDGs will too. Investment ...

Below is a presentation by Alice Welbourn given on May 29th, 2013 at Women Deliver on a Panel hosted by the H4+, insupport of the global initiative Every Woman, Every Child , and the Inter-agency Task Team on the Prevention and Treatment of HIV ...

More than 50 residents and employees of the Maternity and Child Health Care Centre held a dharna to protest the closure of the dispensary by district health authorities on Monday.The centre, owned by Red Cross, has been running from the

In January 2008, The Lancet, the world's leading medical journal, published its ground breaking series on maternal and child nutrition, which successfully identified to the world the damaging effects of undernutrition. The Series focused on ...

Cambodia's Deputy Prime Minister H.E. Gen. Tea Banh, Minister of National Defense and Health Minister H.E. Mam Bunheng, preside over on Monday the inauguration ceremony of the Maternity and Child Health Care Building built by the fund of Korean ...

The grant is under the project dubbed: Improving Maternal and Child Health in the Volta Region. The project would among others establish midwifery and community health nursing institutions, upgrade the skills of health personnel in the region, ...

The government has been urged to focus on improving maternal health to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Acting director in charge of projects and programmes at the Ministry of Devolution and Planning Gideon Maillu said Kenya has succeeded ...

Editor's Note: Dr. Ariel Pablos-Mndez is the Assistant Administrator for Global Health at USAID. Nominated by President Obama, Dr. Pablos-Mndez joined the USAID leadership team with a vision to shape the Bureau for Global Health's programmatic ...

KampalaMaternal and child death rates have dropped in Uganda in the past decade, the World Health Organisation says.In its latest global report, Uganda registered a 5.1 per cent reduction of maternal death—from 600 to 310 per 100,000 live births ...