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UNICEF: Report highlights risk...

UNICEF: Report highlights risk of maternal mortality in developing world

africa
Monday, October 06, 2008
Nearly all maternal deaths occur in developing countries; over 80 per cent in sub-Saharan Africa and South AsiaA new report on maternal mortality,...
maternal mortality, mother, birth, pregnancy
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Releasing Declining Numbers fo...

Releasing Declining Numbers for Child Mortality, UNICEF Calls for Increased Efforts to Save Children’s Lives

africa
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
UNICEF today released new figures that show the rate of deaths of children under five continued to decline in 2007. The new estimates show a 27 per...
children mortality, death, mortality, birth
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GUINEA-BISSAU: Maternal mortal...

GUINEA-BISSAU: Maternal mortality among world’s highest

africa » guinea bissau » gabu
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
When Aisha (not her real name) went into labour in Gabu, 160km east of the capital Bissau, she did not know she was pregnant with twins. The first...
maternal mortality, pregnancy, birth
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GHANA: Race against time to cu...

GHANA: Race against time to cut maternal mortality

africa » ghana » accra
Friday, August 08, 2008
In a country where the World Health Organization estimates 560 pregnant women will die out of every 100,000 that go into labour, the news that a...
pregnancy, maternal mortality, birth
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URR triplets at RVTH

URR triplets at RVTH

africa » gambia » central river region
Monday, May 19, 2008
Mrs Moudou Touray from Kuwonku Village in the Upper River Region gave birth to triplets on May 1 at the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital (RVTH)....
rvth, birth, triplets, daily observer, support, geographical
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CHAD: PMTCT - a difficult birt...

CHAD: PMTCT - a difficult birth

africa » chad » ndjamena
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Lowering the chances of an HIV positive mother passing the virus onto her child is a simple case of giving mother and baby one dose of the...
hiv, aids, funding, virus, children, staff, birth, mothers, arvs
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SIERRA LEONE: Maternity hospit...

SIERRA LEONE: Maternity hospital is “last resort”

africa » sierra leone » freetown
IRIN
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Two babies and several gaunt women are the only patients in the gloomy wards of the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown. The hospital...
editors choice, hospital, birth, maternity ward, baby, nurse
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Bronchopneumonia patient needs...

Bronchopneumonia patient needs fianancial assistance

africa » gambia » latri kunda sabiji
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Maimuna Sey, age 4, resident in Latrikunda Sabaji is still in need of financial assistance to proceed to overseas for a timely reconstructive cardiac...
maimuna sey, need, surgery, medical, royal victoria teaching hospital, financial, bronchopneumonia, birth, death, hypertension
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NIGER: Botched birth survivors...

NIGER: Botched birth survivors battle fistula

africa » niger » niamey
IRIN
Monday, December 24, 2007
Niger is one of the most dangerous places in the world to give birth.Thirty women lolling on mats outside a non-governmental organisation (NGO)...
fistula, birth, pregnancy, labour, child marriage
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SIERRA LEONE: Salimatu Thoronk...

SIERRA LEONE: Salimatu Thoronka, “I have given birth to four children since losing my legs”

africa » sierra leone » makeni
IRIN
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Salimatu Thoronka had both her legs cut off by rebels in 1999 when she was 19 years old. She is now training to become a seamstress in Makeni in a...
editors, choice, Salimatu Thoronka, rebels, handicap, birth, legs, training, children
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