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MNCH in the news: 25 - 30 April 2011

Stillbirths: the professional organisations' perspective The Lancet – 30 April 2011 The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO), the International Paediatric Association (IPA), and the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) are well aware of the often forgotten issue of stillbirth, and recognise it as one of the most common adverse pregnancy outcomes worldwide—with about 2·6 million or more stillbirths happening every year.

Myanmar to reduce infant mortality rate Xinhua – 30 April 2011 Myanmar health authorities have planned to reduce the death rate of infant which included in the 4th point of Millennium Development Goals, the official daily New Light of Myanmar reported Saturday. Jointly organized by the Woman and Child Health Development Section of Health Department, WHO and UNICEF, the Union Minister for Health Dr Pe Thet Khin stressed that the first priority is to be given to maternal and child care so as to put the death rate on the decline …

Venezuela en el Top Ten de los países con más nacimientos en Latinoamérica La Verdad – 29 April 2011 ...Un factor que sigue generando preocupación en las organizaciones que velan por la salud a nivel mundial y en Latinoamérica (Organización Mundial de la Salud y Organización Panamericana de la Salud), es la mortalidad materna, por lo que se han abocado a combatir las principales de causas de uno de los peores desenlaces de un embarazo.

43 Million Children Globally Were Overweight Who Were Under 5ht Nutrition and Diet News – 29 April 2011 Globally, in 2010 around 43 million children younger than five were overweight.1 Proper nutrition means getting an optimal balance of nutrients; however an excessive amount of certain nutrients – even the ones that are important for a child’s development – can negatively affect long-term health outcomes.

Why isn't there a global movement to combat noncommunicable diseases? New Republic – 29 April 2011 The United Nations Millennium Development Goals, for instance, have driven an ambitious global health agenda to improve child health, reduce maternal mortality, and combat infectious diseases like tuberculosis, malaria and HIV/AIDs. ...

Family Planning and US Foreign Policy Council on Foreign Relations – 28 April 2011 Investments in international family planning can also significantly improve maternal, infant, and child health. Support for international voluntary family planning advances a wide range of vital US foreign policy interests -- including the desire to ...

Tragedy of SA motherhood Sowetan – 28 April 2011 ... a platform where all sectors of the community, who will include traditional leaders, healthcare professionals and religious leaders can come together to highlight challenges in reproductive, maternal and child healthcare services," he said. ...

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Kazakh senators attended 124th Assembly of Interparliamentary Union Kazinform – 28 April 2011 The issues of ensuring accountability in key health initiatives MNCH, including the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health were discussed at the ...

Photo: Sun News Publishing Daily Sun – 28 April 2011 She would have committed suicide as a result of an ailment known as Vesicular Virginal Fistula (VVF). She has been battling with the condition in which there has been uncontrollable leakage of urine from her bladder for the past five years. ...

Health Workers Without Maternity Leave Inter Press Service – 28 April 2011 "Whatever success Pakistan has achieved towards bringing down infant and maternal mortality rates, or in meeting the targets for the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 (reducing childmortality and improving maternal health), would not have been ...

Japan: Women and pre-born at risk following Fukushima incidents Spero News – 28 April 2011 Yet neither the WHO (World Health Organization) or the International Atomic Energy Association, the two international bodies that monitor health and nuclear security respectively, have provided any information about the effect of radiation exposure to women`s bodies. The Japanese government is called upon to tackle the situation by encouraging women to undergo medical evaluations and to provide them with specific resources and strategies to reduce exposure to radiation …

Jujuy avanza en la implementación del plan para reducir la mortalidad materno infantil Jujuy Dia – 28 April 2011 El ministro de Salud de Jujuy, Víctor Urbani, y el subsecretario de Salud Comunitaria del Ministerio de Salud de la Nación, Guillermo González Prieto, encabezarán hoy en San Salvador un encuentro en el que equipos nacionales y provinciales evaluarán el Plan para la Reducción de la Mortalidad Materno-Infantil, de la Mujer y de la Adolescente, a un año de su puesta en marcha en esa provincia.

'Maternal deaths under-reported' Irish Health – 28 April 2011 A maternity services campaign group has claimed the real figures for the number of women dying following childbirth in Ireland are under-reported and the actual figures could be much higher than official statistics show. … Currently, maternal mortality in Ireland is calculated as a death of a woman when pregnant or within 42 days of the pregnancy ending. World Health Organisation guidelines are used to calculate this figure.

Mother child week: Saving women from maternal mortality The Express Tribune – 27 April 2011 There is a need to recognise maternal death and illness as a pressing human rights issue on national level in Pakistan. The country has fallen short of implementing its resolution with the United Nation Human Rights Council on the issue, passed in 2009, The Express Tribune has learnt …

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Rwanda: Free Fistula Treatment Kicks Off At Kigali Hospital AllAfrica.com – 27 April 2011 Kigali — A non governmental organisation, EngenderHealth, through its Fistula Care Project, on Monday began a ten-day exercise that will see 66 women suffering from Obsteric fistula, receive free treatment at the Kigali Central University Teaching ...

Double whammy Indian Express – 27 April 2011 … In India, the maternal mortality rate is more than 300 in 1,00,000 (one lakh) of delivery cases, which is serious, and hypertension and convulsions due to hypertension (eclampsia) is one of the prime reasons of maternal mortality, says Dr Sanjay Gupte, who is the first Indian doctor to be appointed as the Secretary General of the GESTOSIS organanisation (OGASH).

Breastfeeding protects infants against hepatitis Tehran Times – 27 April 2011 A Shahid Beheshti Medical University professor says breastfeeding protects infants against viral infections like hepatitis and also guard mothers against viruses. Ahmad Reza Farsar, in an interview with Fars news agency, says since people are in contact with various types of viruses in their environment, antibodies are produced in mothers’ blood …

Mother, child health week The News – 26 April 2011 PUNJAB Health Department is celebrating Mother and Child Health Week with the collaboration of UNICEF till April 30 in the province during which 50,000 lady health workers and officials of the department would pay door to door visits for creating awareness and to promote health education among women regarding the issues related to pregnancy, delivery and healthcare of the infants.

Midwives Lowering Death Rate for Newborns in Zambia Kansas City infoZine – 26 April 2011 ... in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research. ...

Despite achievements in fighting malaria, more should be done: UN officials People's Daily Online – 26 April 2011 The goals include a focus on combating malaria and on related issues like child and maternal health. In his message for World Malaria Day, Ban underscored the importance of the fight against malaria. "On this observance of World Malaria Day, ...

The Mountain Midwives of Vietnam Al Jazeera – 26 April 2011 The maternal mortality rate in rural regions of northern Vietnam is 10 times higher than the national average …

'Isn't it shameful that in a country with the atomic bomb, women are dying ... The Express Tribune – 26 April 2011 Obstetrician-gynaecologist Dr Shershah Syed Syed recalls how he had never seen a maternal death or a chronic fistula until he returned to Pakistan after overseas postgraduate training. Witnessing the complications of childbirth had a profound effect on ...

To Defeat Malaria UNSG Calls for Increased Investment in Research ... Daily Observer – 26 April 2011 It was with this in mind that, last September, I launched the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health. “Let us also build up human capacity in ...

US envoy Roemer visits education, health programs in Delhi's Sanjay Gandhi ... DailyIndia.com – 26 April 2011 To reduce the effects of indoor air pollution on maternal and child health, USAID is currently working with US based company Envirofit on a pilot program to develop and test innovative strategies that will create a demand for improved cook stoves among ...

Innovative ideas sought to improve maternal and child health care in Orissa The Economic Times – 26 April 2011 More than 300 pregnant women out of one lakh die before giving birth to child and for every one lakh new born child, 690 die due to improper health care in Orissa. It will be well-nigh impossible for the state to achieve the 2015 Millennium Development Goals for maternal and child health.

Basic training to reduce infant deaths can be cheap, effective UAB News – 25 April 2011 Each year around the world 3.6 million infants die in the first 28 days of life. The majority of these deaths occur within seven days of birth and 98 percent occur in developing countries …

After School in Brooklyn, West African Girls Share Memories of a Painful Ritual The New York Times – 25 April 2011 … Female genital cutting is practiced in more than two dozen African countries and parts of Asia and the Middle East, and the World Health Organization estimates that up to 140 million women have undergone it.

Revolutionizing Guatemala, one sex education workshop at a time BCLocalNews – 25 April 2011 It helps to: end poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS and other diseases and encourage environmental sustainability. ...

WHO steps up immunization efforts to protect Western Pacific children from disease Channel 6 News Online – 25 April 2011 MANILA (BNO NEWS) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday said it is stepping up its efforts to ensure that more people in the Western Pacific Region, especially children, are protected from disease by immunization. ...

Weeklong campaign for mother, child health in Sindh Daily Times – 25 April 2011 KARACHI: Mother & Child Health Week will begin here on Monday (today) across the province with the aim to minimise the mortality rate particularly among pregnant women and infants. “The campaign will continue till April 30 and all officials of the ...

UAE urged to take lead in Gulf maternal health The National – 25 April 2011 Dr Haifa Madi, director of health protection and promotion for the WHO regional office for the eastern Mediterranean, said: "It is easy to address maternal and child health - we need resources. We need the commitment of politicians. ...

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Stillbirth and maternal mental health Maternal Health Task Force – 29 April 2011 A simple internet search for “stillbirth and maternal mental health” returns more results for, what one might consider, the opposite relationship, namely, the link between a mother's mental health prior to birth and the …

Nigeria: Preventable Causes Lead to Maternal Mortality | Pulitzer ... PulitzerCenter.org – 28 April 2011 And on our website, you can read the director's reflections on filming difficult subjects like maternal mortality. "The Economist" Film Project is designed to highlight the work of independent producers on the PBS ...

Every Mother Counts – Save Lives This Mother's Day Child Mode – 27 April 2011 Every Mother Counts is an advocacy and mobilization campaign that is geared towards increasing education and support for maternal and child health. Many of us here in America are extremely blessed to have good health care and options that allow us to …