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15 08, 2013

10 interventions equals a million children saved

2017-04-26T12:35:08+00:00

?Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are among the 34 countries around the globe most affected by childhood malnutrition. If just 10 key nutrition interventions are scaled up to 90 per cent coverage in these countries, nearly 15 per cent of all deaths in children under five can be prevented, and at least a fifth [...]

15 06, 2012

Family Planning Summit – London

2017-04-26T12:35:15+00:00

Awareness & access of reproductive health to women in developing countries   Aims of the Summit The UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with the support of UNFPA and other partners, will host a ground breaking international Family Planning Summit inLondonin July. TheSummitwill launch a global movement to give an additional 120 [...]

15 01, 2012

Interventions can reduce 45 per cent stillbirths globally

2017-04-26T12:35:18+00:00

Stillbirth refers to all pregnancy losses after 22 weeks of gestation. WHO defines stillbirth as birth weight of at least 1000 grams or a gestational age of at least 28 weeks (third-trimester stillbirth). Pakistan ranks second amongst countries that account for 66 per cent of the world’s stillbirths with 46 stillbirths per 1000 births. Speaking [...]

15 01, 2012

Plans for Mother and Child Week reviewed

2017-04-26T12:35:18+00:00

Government of Pakistan in collaboration with UNICEF organised a Review and Planning Meeting for the upcoming April round of the Mother and Child Week. The objectives of the meeting were to review the achievements of the November 2011 round of the Mother and Child Week; to plan for the April 2012 round in the light [...]

15 12, 2011

Pakistan to benefit key interventions aimed at reducing maternal, newborn and child deaths

2017-04-26T12:35:23+00:00

A new global consensus has been agreed on the key evidence-based interventions that will sharply reduce the 358,000 women who still die each year during pregnancy and childbirth and the 7.6 million children who die before the age of 5, according to an extensive, three-year global study. The study, Essential Interventions, Commodities and Guidelines for Reproductive, [...]

15 08, 2011

UNFPA to continue health facilities in flood-hit areas

2017-04-26T12:35:24+00:00

One year after Pakistan’s worst flooding in decades, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, continues to deliver comprehensive reproductive health care services as part of its humanitarian response. In August 2010, the Fund’s immediate response after the floods struck was to support basic reproductive health services for the displaced. Now, during the recovery phase, the [...]

15 05, 2011

Keeping promises, measuring results

2017-04-26T12:35:26+00:00

Health accountability report presented at world health assembly The United Nations Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health presented their report, Keeping Promises, Measuring Results, and recommendations to increase the likelihood that pledges for women's and children's health are honoured and that resources are spent in the most effective way to save [...]

15 05, 2011

Many Countries hit by Health Threats from Both Infectious and Chronic Diseases

2017-04-26T12:35:26+00:00

New data site makes WHO data and analyses widely available An increasing number of countries are facing a double burden of disease as the prevalence of risk factors for chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart diseases and cancers increase and many countries still struggle to reduce maternal and child deaths caused by infectious diseases, for [...]

15 05, 2011

Top 30 Medicines to Save Mothers and Children

2017-04-26T12:35:29+00:00

WHO releases list of drugs that need to be available everywhere The World Health Organization's (WHO) first ever list of priority medicines for maternal and child health recommends  to countries which medicines are most important for saving lives. Access to appropriate medicines is vital to achieving global health goals[i].  More than eight million children under [...]