Germany to grant 1.9 mln USD to UNFPA of promote maternal health in...

Xinhua News Agency;  October 30, 2007 ;     217 words ......pledged to contribute 1.3 million euros (some 1.9 million U.S. dollars) to UNFPA Cambodia to help reduce the maternal morality rate in the kingdom. The grant will be channeled through the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to the Cambodian...

Shaanxi Protects Rights of Women and Children

Xinhua English Newswire;  July 19, 1996 ;     299 words ......social spheres, Wei Zhangzhi was quoted as saying in today's China Daily. The province wants to lower the infant and child morality rate, said Wei, director of the Women and Children's rights Protection Office of the Provincial Women's Federation. New legislation...

AIDS-related Child Death Rising in Kenya

Xinhua English Newswire;  February 17, 1999 ;     196 words ......Kenya. UNICEF's Kenya representative Chrispin Wilson said Tuesday the demographic and health surveys of 1998 show that infant morality rate has gone up by 20 percent in the last five years, the same point as that in 1969. "The issue of care, nurture, health and...

Shock levels of heart failure highlight link with deprivation.(News)

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  October 21, 2004 ;     312 words ......RESIDENTS in the Strabane area are in more danger of dying from heart failure than elsewhere in the Province. With a high morality rate recorded for the district, professionals are citing high levels of deprivation as one of the causes for the shocking statistics...

Babies Need a Healthy Start

The Washington Post;  May 30, 1995 ;     153 words ......less likely to reach their first birthday than babies born in 22 other industrialized nations. Although the national infant morality rate dropped from 1989 to 1991, the death rate for minority babies remains high: The infant mortality rate for African American...

More Facilities Needed to Foster Breastfeeding.

Korea Times (Seoul, Korea);  August 4, 2000 ;     403 words ......7 as World Breastfeeding Week. Devised to encourage breastfeeding worldwide, the merits of which range from lower infant morality rate to better mental health for children as well as mothers, the Korean chapter is actively promoting it. Together with the group...

China guards against cholera from Congo

Xinhua News Agency;  June 23, 2003 ;     186 words ......World Health Organization, the DRC had reported 13,452 cases of cholera and 380 deaths from the illness by Jun. 8, with a morality rate of 2.82 percent. People from the DRC shall report immediately to the quarantine departments if they have symptoms like vomiting...

Major news items in leading French newspapers

Xinhua News Agency;  August 14, 2003 ;     169 words ......1,000 lives from Aug. 4 to 10 in France. Hundreds died of heat- related illnesses in the Paris region in recent days. The morality rate was 39 percent higher than the average level of the same period in past years. France Soir: -- The summer of 2003, record-breaki...

HEALTH BRIEFS

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  September 30, 2003 ;     328 words ......department of obstetrics and gynecology at South Shore Hosptial has been appointed to the Mass. Dept. of Public Health's maternal morality and morbidity review committee. Dr. Nugent lives in Hull and has been the director of South Shore Hospital's maternity...

Ministry announces major gap in rural, urban maternal moralityrates

Xinhua News Agency;  November 26, 2004 ;     135 words ...Ministry announces major gap in rural, urban maternal morality rates BEIJING, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Ministry of Health said here Friday the rate of rural women dying in childbirth...

News items from Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua (Part 1)

Xinhua News Agency;  April 4, 2008 ;     597 words ......gets hurt after stealing 3 cars 1st Ld: ASEAN finance ministers review economic situations, chart directions Maternal morality rate remains high in Cambodia Major news items in leading Bangladeshi newspapers Major news items in leading Japanese...

ASIA-CHINA: U.S. HEALTH TEAM AIMS TO CUT TIBET'S MATERNAL DEATHRATE

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......among the most hazardous places for expectant mothers in Asia. Sierra Leone in African has the highest global maternal morality rate with 2,000 deaths for every 100,000 live births, according to the World Health Organization. Now that their research...

REP. COHEN ISSUES STATEMENT ON 20/20 SPECIAL ON MEMPHIS INFANT MORTALITY...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 22, 2008 ;     542 words ......Babyland: Elizabeth Vargas Reports on Memphis' High Infant Mortality Rate. Tonight, ABC's 20/20 will report on the high infant morality rate in Memphis, a story that needs to be told. According to their research, a baby dies in our city on average every 43 hours...

Beijing residents live until they are 80

Xinhua News Agency;  March 9, 2007 ;     148 words ......indicate that Beijing's population growth in 2006 was approximately zero, said bureau sources. The bureau reported an infant morality rate of 466 per 100,000 people. The maternal mortality rate dropped to 787 per 100,000 people. In rural areas of Beijing, the...

STUDY TO LOOK AT INFANT MORTALITY THE RATE IS DOWN AMONG BLACK BABIES IN...

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  September 17, 2008 ;     306 words ......a recent five-year period, in black infant mortality. They'll also study the situation in Racine, where the black infant morality rate is four times higher, in hopes of improving the picture there and elsewhere in the state. We want to know what's happening...