Article: Maternal morality rate remains high in Cambodia

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

Article: 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...

Article: 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...

Article: 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...

Article: 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...

Article: Maternal and neonatal mortality high in Barisal.
The New Nation (Dhaka, India);  May 21, 2009 ;     262 words ...Dhaka, May 21 -- The maternal and neonatal morality rate remain high in Barisal Shere Bangla Medical College Hospital. Sources in SBMCH said 128 mothers and over 800 new born baby died...

Article: 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...

Article: 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...

Article: 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...

Article: IN BRIEF: Maternity Worldwide appoints new agency.(Spirit Advertising contracts)(Brief article)
Marketing Week;  October 5, 2006 ;     42 words ...Spirit Advertising has been appointed to handle advertising for Maternity Worldwide. The charity was set up in the UK four years ago to improve maternity care and reduce maternal morality rates in developing countries. Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and licensors

Article: Maternal & Child Nutrition.
UNB - United News of Bangladesh;  September 16, 2004 ;     213 words ......Khurshid Zahan Haque MP today said population growth in Bangladesh dropped to 1.5 percent from 1.75 percent while the infant morality rate is now 60 per thousand live birth, down from 75. She was presenting the Bangladesh country paper on the second day of the...

Article: India: Birth of the Republic, Births In The Republic
Women's Feature Service;  January 19, 2009 ;     111 words ......unacceptably high levels of maternal and infant mortality? UNICEF's latest 'State of the World's Children' Report records that maternal morality in India is at 450 per 100,000 live births, while infant mortality is at 57 per 1,000 live births. What is intriguing about...

Article: 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...

Article: City- Training course on demographic, health survey starts today.
PPI - Pakistan Press International;  August 8, 2006 ;     191 words ......and demographic indicators in Pakistan. The purpose of the course is also to train them for ascertaining the causes of maternal morality, the percentage of births attended by skilled medical providers, childhood immunizations, data on infant and child sickness...