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By Jill Moss Broadcast: October 27, 2003 This is Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English Development Report. A study finds that one out of sixteen women in Africa will die during 1)pregnancy or 2)ch
DEVELOPMENT REPORT – December 2, 2002: Afghanistan and Maternal Deaths By Jill Moss This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Afghanistan has one of the highest death rates in the world am
As a new father, I quickly learned the true meaning of maternal instinct. Late one night, I was summoned to the hospital to attend to one of my patients. I quietly got up in the dark but tripped over
Experts blame the lack of progress in maternal and child health on a severe shortage of doctors, nurses and midwives in the affected countries. Many countries with the highest mother and child death rates continue to fall short, a decade after pledgi
DEVELOPMENT REPORT – July 22, 2002: Maternal Deaths Study By Jill Moss This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Development Report. Each year, more than five-hundred-thousand women in develop
By Tendai Maphosa London 18 October 2007 A three-day conference on ways to reduce preventable deaths of newborns and women during pregnancy has opened in London. Tendai Maphosa has more for VOA from London. The Women Deliver Conference has attracted
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 03 December 2007 A U.N. representative says more women in India die during pregnancy or childbirth than in any other country in the world. The U.N. official says India must improve its public health system to cut the rate
By Tendai Maphosa London 20 October 2007 The three-day Women Deliver conference, which focused on maternal and infant mortality, ended Saturday in London. As Tendai Maphosa reports, the organizers and delegates hope it will give new momentum to effor
Maternal Health Poses Another Major Challenge for Somalia Two decades of civil war in Somalia have made the country one of the most dangerous places in the world for a woman to give birth. The World Health Organization says Somalia has one of the hig
By Fid Thompson Dakar 22 September 2009 The human rights group Amnesty International says the maternal health situation in Sierra Leone amounts to a human rights abuse. The small West African nation has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in
Worldwide, giving birth is far less dangerous than it was even two decades ago. A new report shows that maternal mortality, however, remains a serious threat - even in wealthy, industrialized nations. A report released by New York City's health depar
Despite data showing sharp declines in maternal mortality, half a million women still die every year in childbirth. In addition, three and a half million newborns die within the first 30 days of life. There's an effort to save these lives with proven
Joe DeCapua 27 April 2010 Sub-Saharan Africas maternal and child mortality rate remains high despite an overall worldwide reduction, according to The Lancet medical journal. About 350,000 women die annually from child-birth related accidents. As a re
Senegal Tests Controversial Maternal Health Drug A controversial drug that can save women from bleeding to death after delivery has shown promising results in trials conducted in Senegal. Everyday, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), an
The report issued by the WHO shows birth-related mortality declined by 34 percent during the past decade - from about 546,000 deaths in 1990 to an estimated 358,000 deaths in 2008. That is an annual rate of decline of about 2.3 percent. Although the
Undocumented Syrian Refugees Suffer Deprivation UmSteif Aysa al Fadil, a Syrian mother of eight, gathers khubays, a leafy green vegetable, on the scrap of land she now inhabits outside Kilis in southern Turkey. This plant, which she will boil and fee
Genetic Protection against Sleep Deprivation A study in The Journal of Neuroscience finds that people with a particular version of a gene called Period 3 are better able to handle sleep deprivation because more of their brains get involved in counte
By Daniel Schearf Bangkok 16 September 2009 The United Nations says maternal and child mortality rates in the Asia-Pacific region are not improving fast enough because of poor access to reproductive health care. U.N. officials say more resources are
科学家研究发现,与夜晚睡眠6至8小时的人相比,夜晚睡眠不足(sleep deprivation)6小时的人在65岁之前早逝的可能性增加12%。但这并不表明睡眠时间越长越好。研究人员还发现,夜晚睡眠超过9小
By Melinda Smith Washington 06 March 2008 Have you ever wished you could put aside your work just for a short nap? If so, you may be sleep deprived. Sleep experts saysleep deprivationis a common problem among many people who put in long hours on the