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‘Midwives key in the fight against maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality’
Wednesday, 1st May 2013International Day of the Midwife (5 May 2013) – resource pack available on www.internationalmidwives.org
Monday, 29th April 2013Call for participation: Online seminar - The WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Collaboration
Thursday, 25th April 2013Misoprostol for the Management of Postpartum Haemorrhage: New Evidence and the Way Forward - FIGO Session at Women Deliver 2013
Friday, 5th April 2013FIGO encourages global focus on high blood pressure on World Health Day 2013 (7 April 2013)
Friday, 5th April 2013Top women’s health news
14,000 take part in Niger 'public vow' to end FGM
Friday, 17th May 2013Some 14,000 villagers representing 20 communities have taken part in a ceremonial vow to end female genital mutilation (FGM) and forced child marriage in Niger.
UK girls in danger as FGM 'cutting season' approaches
Friday, 17th May 2013School-age girls in London are "already being prepared" to leave the country so that they can undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) during the summer holidays, junior minister for international development Lynne Featherstone has warned.
Rate of decline in maternal deaths 'needs to double' to meet MDG 5
Thursday, 16th May 2013The global rate of decline in maternal mortality rates, which is currently recorded at three per cent per year, will "need to double" in order to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 target, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
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