Maternal Health Practioners Advocate Saving Lives at Birth The World Health Organization estimates that every minute, a woman dies during pregnancy and millions of others suffer from infections and disease associated with childbearing. To combat this...
Experts blame the lack of progress in maternal and child health on a severe shortage of doctors, nurses and midwives in the affected countries. Many countries with the highest mother and child death rates continue to fall short, a decade after pledgi...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 03 December 2007 A U.N. representative says more women in India die during pregnancy or childbirth than in any other country in the world. The U.N. official says India must improve its public health system to cut the rate...
By Tendai Maphosa London 20 October 2007 The three-day Women Deliver conference, which focused on maternal and infant mortality, ended Saturday in London. As Tendai Maphosa reports, the organizers and delegates hope it will give new momentum to effor...
By Tendai Maphosa London 18 October 2007 A three-day conference on ways to reduce preventable deaths of newborns and women during pregnancy has opened in London. Tendai Maphosa has more for VOA from London. The Women Deliver Conference has attracted...
By Claudia Blume Hong Kong 14 May 2006 Makai, a 40-year-old Afghan woman, looks at her baby boy a few hours after giving birth at public hospital in Mazar-e-Sharif Families around the world celebrate...
DEVELOPMENT REPORT – July 22, 2002: Maternal Deaths Study By Jill Moss This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Development Report. Each year, more than five-hundred-thousand women in develop...
As a new father, I quickly learned the true meaning of maternal instinct. Late one night, I was summoned to the hospital to attend to one of my patients. I quietly got up in the dark but tripped over...
By Jill Moss Broadcast: October 27, 2003 This is Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English Development Report. A study finds that one out of sixteen women in Africa will die during 1)pregnancy or 2)ch...