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From 6 to 700 in seven years, midwives in South Sudan working to change maternal mortality rate

From 6 to 700 in seven years, midwives in South Sudan working to change maternal mortality rate

Midwife Viola putting on her gloves Viola James became…
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Photo: Andreea Câmpeanu

Dynamic staff and sparkling maternity complex deliver improved maternal health in South Sudan

  In the maternity unit at Wau Teaching Hospital in South Sudan…
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(Seated) Mrs Naomi Muyadeen and Head Nurse Esther Adepoju, Kuchigoro Primary Health Care Centre, Abuja.

Nigeria fights high maternal mortality through improved quality of care 

Abuja, 20 June, 2018 - “There were no signs that the morning of 31…
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Launching of MCH Week, Minister of Health, Dr Diane Gashumba administering a deworming tablet to a child

The Mother and Child Health Week integrated with World malaria Day in Rwanda

Rwanda has organized from 14 to 18 May 2018 its annual Integrated…
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WHO has supported the training of midwives through improvements in the national curriculum and the rollout of the EmONC programme

Helping midwives be the best they can be

FREETOWN, May 5 2018 - Midwives everywhere have jobs that truly…
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Former First Lady Madame Pohamba and the Deputy Permanant Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Social Services Mrs Katjivena, with the Honorable Governor of Omahake Region Honorable Uitele

The Opening of  Lady Pohamba Maternity Waiting Home marks the end of the four year EU funded programme on Maternal and Child Health. 

Every year globally, 180-200 million women become pregnant with 287,…
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Dr Abu Bakarr Fofanah, Minister of Health and Sanitation launching the new national five-year strategy and policy for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) in Freetown

New strategy launched to help tackle maternal, child deaths in Sierra Leone

FREETOWN, 6 November 2017 --- Today a new national five-year strategy…
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Midwife holding newborn after delivery

Ghana Holds Sixth National Annual Newborn Stakeholders Conference

Ghana has for the past six years, been organizing an annual…
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The Minister of Health, Dr Diane Gashumba, providing Measles and Rubella Vaccine

Rwanda conducted a national vaccination campaign on Measles and Rubella integrated in Mother and Child Health Week

Rwanda has officially launched a two month countrywide Governance and…
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Group work to critically review the different thematic areas on RMNCAH

WHO and the Ministry of Health strategize for an integrated reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition approach in South Sudan

19 October 2017, Juba – The Ministry of Health of the Republic…
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