The Girl Effect: The clock is ticking
Watch the powerful video that shows the potential of 600 million adolescent girls to end poverty for themselves and the world.
Pregnancy and childbirth support in Pakistan
Watch this UNICEF video on what is being done to help expecting mothers and newborns in Pakistan’s terrible flood conditions.
MALAWI: President lifts ban on traditional birth assistants
Article from IRIN Africa
Kenya: The high price of birth
Expectant mothers living in internally displaced people’s camps in western Kenya need qualified medical help to minimize the possible risks associated with delivery, the residents said.
South Africa: Gathering finds ways to reduce baby deaths
Government and a host of different stakeholders have come up with ways to reduce neonatal deaths in Gauteng hospitals.
Changing perceptions to save newborns’ lives
Dr. Bang decided to try something with a deceptively simple premise: It didn’t take hospitals, or incubators, or even doctors to save babies’ lives, just ordinary village women.
Child mortality rate in RP still high, says DoH
Infant and neonatal mortality reduction remains a major challenge for the government’s Millennium Development Goals, according to the Department of Health (DOH) in the Philippines.
BRAC announces $700 million commitment to help end maternal and child mortality
Commitment to help countries achieve the 4th and 5th Millennium Development Goals
Money, Money, Money at the UN — Will $40 Billion Rescue Pregnant Mothers and Their Infants?
Wall Street starts a worldwide recession and donors are contributing less money than ever to the ambitious UN plan to slash poverty by 2015. But the world body believes it can garner a startling $40 billion to rescue pregnant women and their infants.
UN promotes health campaign for women, children
A global campaign that aims to save the lives of 16 million mothers and children over the next five years was being launched by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday with as much as $40 billion in commitments from world governments and private aid groups.