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Learn English for the 2008 Olympics —— Single Child Family Foreigner: It was in the early eighties that I first became aware of your one child family as the main policy in family planning. I was t

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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

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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

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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

VOA标准英语2010年-Uneven Progress in Reducing Global Mat

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

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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

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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,

VOA标准英语2012--Rate of Premature Births Rising Worldwide

Rate of Premature Births Rising Worldwide The birth of a child....what should be a joyous experience, too often ends in death if that child is born prematurely in a developing country. A major report about premature delivery called Born Too Soon show

VOA标准英语2010年-UN Looking for Ways to Keep Girls in S

At the week-long conference, participants are focusing on three primary roadblocks to getting and keeping girls in school: violence, poverty and the poor quality of education. Scholars, aid workers, and government officials from 22 countries are in D

VOA标准英语2010-African Maternal and Child Mortality Rate

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

VOA标准英语2010-HIV/AIDS Study says Death of a Mother Mor

Joe DeCapua 22 April 2010 We could establish that children who lost their mother before the age of 15 had typically a year less schooling compared to children who didnt experience these kind of events... Its estimated that 15 million children have lo

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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

VOA标准英语2011--Used Mobile Phone Campaign Improves Maternal 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

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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

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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

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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

VOA标准英语2011--UN's 'Every Woman Every Child' Program S

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Sociologists call this relatively new phenomenon intensive mothering, 社会学家称这种新现象为强度母职， and it has culturally elevated the importance of women spending large amounts of time with their children. 这种现象从文化上强

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They tracked more than one thousand children over the course of fifteen years, 之后对1 000多名儿童进行了为期15年的跟踪研究， repeatedly assessing the children's cognitive skills, language abilities, and social behaviors. 反复地评