This is one of a number of projects where new communication technology is used to improve maternal health care in developing countries.
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For Stachel, the solar suitcase is only part of a bigger mission to improve maternal health care and lower mortality rates in developing countries.
Improving water resource management, increasing access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation and promoting hygiene can improve the quality of life of billions of individuals, as well as reduce child mortality, improve maternal health and cut the incidence of waterborne diseases.
Their businesses have tremendous potential to improve maternal and child health outcomes among some of the poorest and most vulnerable populations.
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Instead, this new effort involves workers, suppliers and companies as active partners in efforts to improve child and maternal health, promote gender equality and empower women, combat disease, strengthen local communities and protect the environment wherever they do business.
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The public sector can also work together with corporations and NGOs to organize complementary networks of small and medium enterprises to take on the challenge of increasing the distribution of and demand for quality, affordable products and services to improve maternal and child health.
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Foundation delivers lifesaving vaccines and insecticide-treated bed nets to children, harnesses mobile technologies to improve maternal and child health, provides opportunities for women to voluntarily plan their families, empowers girls to build the future they want and provides clean cooking stoves that are safe and healthy for families and the environment.
So she started the Wellbeing Foundation to help improve maternal, newborn and child health.
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Babatunde Osotimehin: What we have learned was that efforts to deal with the epidemic might have been much more effective if they had been more tightly integrated with those to improve sexual, reproductive and maternal health.
Women have traditionally led the fight to improve access to family planning and the provision and quality of maternal health services.
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