Lu, at the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, has been researching maternal distress for years.
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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Countries that outperform their economic peers on maternal and child health tend to do very well on the political status of women.
Reproductive health and family planning services are available through Alaska's Department of Maternal and Child Health, which is headed by Stephanie Burch.
Providing clean water and improving maternal and child health are popular options.
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Until the latest storm broke, the aid world was abuzz with talk about expanding the fund's remit to include maternal and child health.
The index, part of the group's annual State of the World's Mothers report, is intended to illustrate the link between maternal and child well-being.
Together, they identify local partner organizations that provide the support services needed for maternal and child health, such as parenting classes and transportation to doctor appointments.
Lu, the associate administrator of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Prevent maternal-child transmission of HIV in Africa.
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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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Opinion in Britain is pretty split about that, but recent polls show opinion is dead set against the decision to exempt overseas aid from any cuts, and, per an announcement from Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg this morning, to triple aid spending on 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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But he finds tantalising evidence that she may have been deprived of maternal love as a child.
This includes virtual parity between boys and girls in primary education and significant drops in child and maternal mortality.
While we've made significant strides in reducing child and maternal mortality rates since the 1970s, there are still many lives to save.
The WHO says there is clear evidence that having a higher ratio of health workers to people boosts infant, child and maternal survival.
We can end child and maternal mortality in our generation - by using tried and tested interventions to stop mothers and babies being lost from what should be simple preventable causes.
It can reduce issues around maternal health and high child fatality rates, which are leading to a combined global population that is both very young and aging at the same time.
Implementing this agenda and creating a market in the poorest countries for life-saving commodities is vital if we are going to accelerate progress towards the goal of ending preventable child and maternal deaths.
Focused on the at-risk population of approximately 1.8 million women of child-bearing age and children, this programme is developing a comprehensive approach to food security, child and maternal nutrition, which includes intense awareness-raising through media.
Irina Bokova underscored that UNESCO has been making a strong plea for education to be recognized as the key to reducing poverty, improving child and maternal health, fighting HIV and AIDS, and empowering girls and women.
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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So while the HPV vaccine by itself is probably far too expensive to justify, if it's coupled with a larger agenda, laying the groundwork for decreasing maternal mortality and improving child health by reaching these girls before they become mothers, then perhaps we have a real breakthrough.
In the case of the Mississippi baby, we know she was exposed to HIV, had HIV in her blood, and that at least some cells in her blood were found with sleeping virus though we will likely never know if those cells were from the child or maternal cells that had been transmitted during pregnancy or birth.
While newborn, child, and maternal death rates have declined across the developing world in the past two decades, the report found that progress has been the slowest in this region.
BPAmoco is helping to finance a child-nutrition and maternal-health programme in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam.
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.
Similar programs delivered by a variety of different providers, including volunteers, salaried workers, and entrepreneurs, have found similar success from Brazil to Nepal and have helped to reduce maternal deaths worldwide by 30% and child deaths by 40% over the past two decades.
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