United Nations - Prenatal Care Information

A global campaign to save new mothers and children under five in developing nations has made strong gains but is set to fall well shy of UN goals, according to a study released Tuesday.Only nine out of 137 countries are on track ...

LONDON (Reuters) - More investment in midwifery could save many of the millions of babies and hundreds of thousands of women who still die every year because of a lack of skilled healthcare during childbirth, the United Nations said on Monday.In the ...

Afghanistan is the worst place in the world to be a mother and Norway is the best, an annual report released Tuesday said."Afghanistan has the highest lifetime risk of maternal mortality and the lowest female life expectancy in the world," putting it ...

The World Health Organisation Monday urged action to stem the "shameful" number of deaths in childbirth in Asia Pacific, where less than half of women have skilled help when they deliver.Shin Young-Soo, WHO director of the Western Pacific region which stretches from ...

Regular hand washing with soap and hot water saves lives. In the 1840s in Vienna, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis noted that the death rate among women in the delivery room staffed by doctors was three times higher than in the delivery room staffed ...

Despite years of civil war and political instability, Nepal is on track to meet several of its Millennium Development Goals, with major strides forward on maternal and child mortality.Landlocked Nepal remains one of the world's poorest countries, with high rates of unemployment ...

From midwives in flip-flops to motorcycle ambulances, saving pregnant mothers is global goalAstamaya Tami, 55, is part of a ragtag army of women who have turned Nepal into an against-all-odds success story when it comes to saving lives of expectant mothers, hundreds ...

Maternal mortality has declined by more than one-third in nearly two decades, UN agencies said on Wednesday, although Africa and South Asia bear the overwhelming burden of deaths in childbirth.The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank and the World Health Organisation ...

Maternal mortality has declined by more than one-third in nearly two decades, UN agencies said on Wednesday, although Africa and South Asia bear the overhwhelming burden of deaths in childbirth.The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank and the World Health Organisation ...

KIGALI (Reuters) - At midnight Valentine Uwingabire's back began to hurt. Her husband ran to tell Germaine Uwera, a community health worker in their village in the fertile foothills of Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park.Equipped with a mobile phone from the local health ...

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Topic: United Nations

Race to save mothers, children set to fall short

Millions still die due to lack of midwives: U.N.

Afghanistan worst place, Norway best to be a mom: study

WHO urges action on 'shameful' deaths in childbirth

Washing Hands Benefits

Communities helping Nepal meet millennium goals

Gains made, but many pregnant mothers still die

Deaths in childbirth fall but too slowly: UN

Deaths in childbirth drop but too slowly: UN

Text messages save pregnant Rwandan women

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