SRH of young people in Asia and the Pacific – UNFPA
Posted on March 4, 2016 at 10:44 am
This wide-ranging report reviews the status of young people’s sexual and reproductive health in 32 countries across Asia and the ...
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Girlhood, Not Motherhood – UNFPA
Posted on February 22, 2016 at 3:17 am
When a girl becomes pregnant, her present and future change radically, and rarely for the better. Pregnancy before a girl ...
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Onward to 2030: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals
Posted on February 11, 2016 at 4:03 am
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) lay out a new roadmap to improve the lives of people throughout the world over ...
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Ending preventable stillbirths. An Executive Summary for The Lancet’s Series
Posted on February 8, 2016 at 6:07 am
Addressing the epidemic of stillbirths has been recognised as an essential part of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. This was ...
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Ending preventable stillbirths. An Executive Summary for The Lancet’s Series
Posted on January 27, 2016 at 4:40 am
Addressing the epidemic of stillbirths has been recognised as an essential part of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. This was ...
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“I was on the way to the hospital but delivered in the bush”: Maternal health in Ghana’s Upper West Region in the context of a traditional birth attendants’ ban
Posted on January 11, 2016 at 10:39 am
Social Science & Medicine. Volume 148, January 2016, Pages 8–17 Highlights The ban of TBAs in resource poor settings may be ...
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Migrant maternity in an era of superdiversity: New migrants’ access to, and experience of, antenatal care in the West Midlands, UK
Posted on January 11, 2016 at 10:38 am
Social Science & Medicine. Volume 148, January 2016, Pages 152–159 Highlights Migrants in the West Midlands receive less antenatal care than ...
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Perinatal outcomes associated with maternal HIV infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Posted on December 15, 2015 at 6:04 am
The Lancet HIV. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(15)00207-6 Background The HIV pandemic affects 36·9 million people worldwide, of whom 1·5 million are pregnant women. ...
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Acting on the Call: Ending Preventable Child and Maternal Deaths Report
Posted on December 7, 2015 at 6:15 am
Last year, USAID unveiled a roadmap outlining how it plans to support 24 high-priority countries to make sure that children live to ...
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Global, regional, and national levels and trends in maternal mortality between 1990 and 2015, with scenario-based projections to 2030: a systematic analysis by the UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group
Posted on December 7, 2015 at 6:14 am
The Lancet. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00838-7 Background Millennium Development Goal 5 calls for a 75% reduction in the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) between 1990 ...
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