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An integrative approach is needed to tackle the twin challenges of
HIV and maternal mortality need integrative approach
According to new patient information published by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), postpartum haemorrhage - where bleeding after delivery is heavier than normal - affects approximately one in 20 mothers.
Postpartum haemorrhage affects too many mothers
The UN has published a new report on the world's progress toward meeting its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), noting that efforts to reduce maternal mortality have so far been "uneven".
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MDG 5 progress uneven
According to the United Nations Population Fund, the global maternal mortality rate has "nearly halved" since the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).
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Maternal deaths halved since 1994
India's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has urged state authorities to supply reproductive health services in communities affected by disasters - addressing the maternal risks associated with population displacement.
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Reproductive health services in disasters
According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) "most off track" for the scheme's 2015 target are those "directly linked to gender equality".
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Gender equality MDGs are most off track
A new distance-learning course, available to medical professionals in India, hopes to teach obstetricians and gynaecologists to deal with "high-risk pregnancies" - a measure intended to reduce the country's maternal mortality rate.
Indian OBGYN training to reduce maternal mortality
The executive director of the United Nations Population Fund has argued that many commentators do not realise that the leading causes of maternal mortality are "largely preventable" and can be treated cheaply.
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Maternal death is preventable
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the Zika virus no longer represents a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).
It was explained that the WHO’s Emergency Committee originally recommended a PHEIC in February 2016 on the basis of an extraordinary cluster of microcephaly and other neurological disorders reported in Brazil, following a similar cluster in French Polynesia and geographic and temporal association with Zika virus infection. The WHO said that these outbreaks “required urgent and co-ordinated and research”.
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WHO: Zika no longer public health emergency
Some two million people around the world are infected with both HIV and the hepatitis C virus (HCV), according to a new report.
Figures from the University of Bristol and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK reveal that 2.3 million individuals are living with both diseases, with female carriers running the risk of passing the infections on to their offspring.
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HIV and hepatitis C co-infections