Air pollution linked to low birth weight
A new report suggests that if urban air pollution in Europe were reduced, a "substantial proportion" of cases of low birth weight could be prevented.Published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine this...
View ArticleSouth African fight against maternal mortality shows mixed progress
South Africa's District Health Barometer, which kicked off in Pretoria yesterday (Monday October 28th), revealed an inconsistent picture of the progress to combat maternal mortality.read more
View ArticleImprovement of malaria vaccine investigated
It has been suggested that a leading vaccination for malaria could well be improved, by focusing on the AMA1 protein.According to a study led by Sheetij Dutta from the Walter Reed Army Institute of...
View ArticleChildren face malnutrition in Yemen's Hodeida area
Many children in the Hodeida area of Yemen are at risk of dying early as a result of malnutrition, an expert has warned.According to Mariam Al-Dawghani of Save the Children, there are a number of...
View ArticleUnicef hails progress on reducing child mortality
Unicef has commended the success of efforts to tackle child mortality in the world's most deprived areas.According to the international body, 90 million children would have died under the age of five...
View ArticleMozambique on course to achieve child mortality target
The Mozambique government is confident it will achieve its child mortality target.Authorities in the African nation want the death rate among under-fives to be two-thirds lower than the 1990 level by...
View ArticleEthiopia urged to tackle high rate of newborn deaths
Authorities in Ethiopia have been urged to take action to reduce the mortality rate among newborn babies.According to Frances Likis, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health,...
View ArticleNigerian state hails drop in maternal and child mortality rates
Officials in the Nigerian state of Lagos have welcomed a decline in the number of maternal and child fatalities.According to state commissioner Dr Jide Idris, there were 20,638 safe deliveries in the...
View ArticleKenya hails drop in child mortality rate
A Kenyan government official has welcomed a recent decline in the country's child mortality rate.According to health secretary James Macharia, 64 per cent of under-fives in Kenya were immunised against...
View ArticleOne million babies 'die within 24 hours of birth' each year
Improvements have been made over the past ten years with regard to child mortality due to immunisation and advances in family planning.However, more than a million babies survive for no longer than 24...
View ArticleHIV transmissions from mother to baby 'decrease in UK'
Cases of HIV transferring to babies from their mothers have decreased dramatically in the UK over the past few years.read more
View Article40m women 'give birth without trained help'
Approximately 40 million women around the world give birth without trained assistance, new figures have revealed.According to Save the Children, this is a particularly big problem in Ethiopia, as...
View ArticleUnicef hails drops in child mortality in Niger
Unicef has welcomed a drop in child mortality in Niger throughout the last decade.According to the latest figures from the organisation, there were 66 deaths among children aged less than a year old...
View ArticleProject to tackle maternal and infant mortality launched in Liberia
A new initiative designed to reduce the number of maternal and infant deaths in Liberia has been launched.The Maternal Health Budget Advocacy Project was devised by the National Budget and Human Rights...
View ArticleCause of child mortality spike in southern Pakistan unclear, says UN body
A UN body has admitted it is unsure what has fuelled an increase in child mortality in southern Pakistan.According to Hazem El Mahi of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, it is...
View ArticleTrinidad government aims to reduce child mortality rate
The government in Trinidad has reaffirmed its commitment to reducing the country's child mortality rate.According to planning minister Dr Bhoe Tewarie, the mortality rate among under-fives in...
View ArticleMaternal cardiac arrests 'still a major problem'
Cardiac arrests that occur during or soon after childbirth may be more of a problem than doctors originally believed, new research suggests.read more
View ArticleAngolan official reaffirms commitment to cutting child mortality
An official in Angola has stressed his commitment to reducing the child mortality rate in Cuanza Norte province.According to Manuel Varela, director of the region's health department, the death rate...
View ArticleFunding for child death prevention 'must be better targeted'
The number of child deaths in developing nations could be reduced significantly if funding for prevention programmes is better targeted, experts have insisted.According to the Centre for Infectious...
View ArticleTackling pneumonia 'remains a challenge in Bangladesh'
Tackling pneumonia among children in Bangladesh is proving to be difficult, an official has admitted.According to Dr Shams El Arifeen, director of the centre for child and adolescent health at Icddr,b,...
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