Maternal Deaths Still High In Ethiopia: Strategies For Improving Mothers’ Health Around The World
Ethiopia
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Highlighting the problems mothers in Ethiopia face, a special issue of the Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health explores how community-based methods maintain the health of mothers and their newborn children.
Seasonal Migration Frustrates Ethiopia’s Family Planning
Ethiopia
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Ethiopia’s Demographic and Health Survey shows that the unmet need for contraceptives in this Horn of Africa nation now stands at 25.3 percent.
Simple, Cheap Health Remedies Cut Child Mortality In Ethiopia
Ethiopia
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Gudaal, along with all of the other health extension workers, has gone through a special, one-year training program.
Family Planning Summit Set for Ethiopia
Ethiopia
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“We have seen that postpartum family planning is essential, is needed. It saves lives. We think that this resource document is going to help many countries do more to reach women, who right now may be confused about family planning options right around the time of birth.”
More midwives needed to improve maternal and newborn survival
Ethiopia, Indonesia, Somalia, Tanzania, United Republic of
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Retention of midwives, especially in rural areas, is a major challenge for many countries, one that threatens to negate all the hard work and resources invested in their training.
Addis Meeting to Press for Universal Access to Family Planning Services
Ethiopia, Malawi
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Global leaders and health champions will press the case for expanded family planning services to improve maternal, newborn and child health.
Ethiopia achieves development target on reducing child mortality
Ethiopia
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Ethiopia, a low-income country in the drought prone Horn of Africa, has achieved the millennium development goal to cut the mortality rate for children under the age of five ahead of the 2015 deadline, according to figures published on Friday.
Global child mortality rates “halved”
Ethiopia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Liberia, Malawi, Niger, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda
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The report indicated that even some of the world’s poorest countries were able to dramatically reduce child mortality rates.
Eastern, southern Africa lead the world in cutting child deaths – Unicef
Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania, United Republic of
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Neonatal deaths – that occur in the first 28 days of life – are the hardest to tackle. These vulnerable newborns accounted for 44 per cent of under-five deaths in 2012, according to the Unicef report.
UN partners with African nations to boost girls’ access to reproductive health services
Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Niger, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, United Republic of
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The announcement came on Friday at the International Conference on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Africa, held in Johannesburg, South Africa.