Africa: It’s Time to do Another “Easy” Thing: Newborn Health Care
The conference is focused on newborns, but our panoramic view involves partnerships across many sectors. As the proverb goes, a bundle of sticks is not easily broken. To raise the profile of newborn survival, we need a strong bundle of sticks.
Pakistan: Conference Spotlighting Maternal and Newborn Health
The conference sessions focused on the costs and financing of maternal and newborn health, socio-economic and cultural factors affecting maternal and newborn health and engaging with civil society to improve health outcomes.
Food giants still flouting code on promoting baby milk formula in developing countries
Research in Pakistan finds companies giving free gifts and misleading literature to mothers and health workers.
Pakistan: Breastfeeding in first hour of birth can save 53,000 annually: Report
"Despite all the benefits of breastfeeding, just over a quarter of Pakistani children are breastfed exclusively.”
Sharp fall in breastfeeding figures makes Asia Pacific “biggest cause for concern” – report
But countries such as India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam “have made no progress on improving exclusive breastfeeding, despite having some of the highest burdens of child mortality,” said the report.
Pakistan Makes Renewed Effort to Reduce Child and Maternal Mortality
Achieving the MDG will require an average annual rate of 14.2 per cent reduction of mortality among children less than five years between 2011 and 2015, which is almost six times the one achieved until 2011, the report says.
Pakistan: Plan to cut child, maternal mortality rates: Millennium goals set to be missed
Ms. Wazirali said the plan is based on interventions and strategies and covered delivery of a package of MNCH services in 40 least developed areas and districts.
Pakistan: Maternal, child health & nutrition‘ should be national priority’
Health experts, politicians, policymakers and donors in Pakistan push for political groups to include RMNCH and nutrition at their own regional and national forums.
Pakistan: Family planning must to prevent maternal, newborn deaths: Razzaque
Islamic scholar supports family planning as a way to reduce maternal and neonatal death in Pakistan.
Pakistan: 1200 Trained Health Workers to Sensitize Breastfeeding
Provincial health officials and UNICEF say there is a dire need to promote breastfeeding to decrease the ratio of infant, child and maternal mortality in Pakistan.