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Health Report - Using a Mobile Phone to Improve Mother and Child Health 健康报道 - 使用手机改善母婴健康 From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report in Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语健康报道。 Different
Using a Mobile Phone to Improve Mother and Child Health From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report in Special English. Different groups around the world are working to expand the uses for mobile technology in health care. Patricia Mechael i
USAID Unveils New Efforts to Reduce Child and Maternal Deaths 美国国际开发署努力降低儿童和孕妇死亡率 WASHINGTON The head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Rajiv Shah, says that every day this year 18,000 mor
GWEN IFILL:We turn now to a new report which ranks the countries where mothers and their children are at the most and the least risk. The international nonprofit Save the Children finds Norway the healthiest for the third year in a row, the worst, th
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 03 May 2006 The World Health Organization has unveiled a new approach for tackling the huge problem of maternal and child mortality. Each year, WHO estimates more than half a mi
By Tendai Maphosa Harare 25 October 2006 Silver Packry, right, feeds one of her children while her mother, left, looks on in Harare, October 17, 2006 Child mortality is on the increase in Zimbabwe, according to the country's health minister. Health
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
By Claudia Blume Hong Kong 14 May 2006 Makai, a 40-year-old Afghan woman, looks at her baby boy a few hours after giving birth at public hospital in Mazar-e-Sharif Families around the world celebrate
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. New research says thirty-five percent of all child deaths worldwide are caused by undernutrition -- hunger. The Lancet, the British medical magazine, just published a series of five studies. The answer,
By Efam Dovi Accra 29 July 2006 Health officials from six African countries meeting in Accra have resolved to work together to improve health screening during pregnancy to control and prevent the spread of malaria and transmission of HIV from mother
Pattern seen in 50 countries in children up to age 5 Art Chimes | Washington, DC 26 April 2010 A new study of more than 50 low- and middle-income countries, finds a consistent association between maternal height and offspring health. Related Links JA
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
The World Health Organization says there has been a sharp drop in the number of deaths among children under age five. The just released report, World Health Statistics 2009, shows 27 percent fewer children died in 2007, the last year for which stati
A consortium of United Nations and private aid and financial organizations are calling for urgent investment in the health of mothers and children in Asia and the Pacific. The consortium, called the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child-Health
Used Mobile Phone Campaign Improves Maternal Health The daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and a former model helped to kick off a campaign in Washington Tuesday to collect 20,000 used mobile phones. The aim is to improve maternal and chi
Conference to Foster Mother, Child Health The 1st International Conference on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Africa got underway Thursday in Johannesburg. Organizers say while much has been done to reduce mortality rates, those rates still rem
By CCTV reporter Zhang Nini China's health authorities say preparations at the local level are underway to implement China's revised family planning policy that will allow more couples to have a second child. Provincial people's congresses must first
Most couples don't want to expand their families, if the low number applying for a second child in Beijing under today's rules is an indicator of parental thinking. 二胎政策出台后,北京申请二胎的比率之低,说明很多夫妻都不打
UN's 'Every Woman Every Child' Program Saves Lives A year ago, the United Nations launched a global campaign called Every Woman, Every Child, a public health project aimed at reducing the number of women dying from pregnancy and childbirth-related co
The World Health Organization says there has been a sharp drop in the number of deaths among children under age five. The just released report, World Health Statistics 2009, shows 27 percent fewer children died in 2007, the last year for which statis