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8 million babies are born with a birth defect globally each year. March 3rd is World Birth Defects Day. Every year, around 8 million children are born with birth defects globally. At the 2010 63rd World Health Assembly, the UN Member States agreed to promote primary prevention and improve the...
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This story is part of the My #BornTooSoon Stories Blog Series, you can read the rest of the blogs here. It was originally published here. (more…)
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Written by Andrea García Charnichart, Emergency Nutrition Advisor at Save the Children Latin America and the Caribbean Breastfeeding: Barriers and Opportunities Breastfeeding saves lives. Not only because it provides protection and nutrition to newborns, but also because it guarantees food security through access to the quantity, quality, availability, and use...
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This blog was originally published on USAID's Health Research Program website here. Related Project: Coordinating Implementation Research to Communicate Learning and Evidence Author(s): Michelle C. May, Research Associate, CIRCLE Project The Zika outbreak greatly affected several Latin American and Caribbean countries to the extent that the World Health Organization declared...
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By Alka Dev In 1804, Haiti defeated its French colonizers to become the first Black nation to gain independence due to a large and successful slave rebellion. While the country was free to promote human rights, universal citizenship, and participation in government, development in Haiti has been a broad challenge....
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