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A study in the May 16 edition of JAMA reveals that survival rates of newborns in poor Bangladeshi communities were significantly improved if their mothers received multiple micronutritions, including iron and folic acid combined with early food ...
May 16, 2012 at 19:56 | Source: Medical News Today
PENANG, 14 July 2010 (IRIN) - Timor-Leste, one of the world’s newest and poorest nations, has achieved significant declines in infant mortality, under-five mortality and fertility rates, according to the country’s latest Demographic and Health Survey ...
May 16, 2012 at 05:16 | Source: IRIN
Two thirds of all child deaths were caused by preventable infectious diseases, but the death rate of children younger than 5 sharply declined over the past 10 years, according to a report released Thursday. Despite increased birth rates, the ...
May 9, 2012 at 23:53 | Source: US News and World Report
In malnourished regions in Bangladesh, the earlier in pregnancy women receive micronutrient and food supplements, the greater will be the benefit in terms of infant and child mortality, a report in JAMA shows. Children born to women who received ...
May 17, 2012 at 23:58 | Source: Health 24
They say that more than one fifth of maternal mortality and more than one third of child mortality is a result of malnutrition. Of the 10 countries which are found at the bottom of this year's list by Save the Children, 7 are in the middle of a ...
May 9, 2012 at 20:55 | Source: Medical News Today
Solomon Islands has one of the lowest rates of child mortality in the East Asia and Pacific region, a new report from Save the Children has found. The annual State of the World's Mothers Report ranked Solomon Islands fourth of 73 developing countries for ...
May 10, 2012 at 04:04 | Source: Radio Australia
"Too much emphasis has been placed in recent years on global numbers and mortality, and less on understanding the determinants and direction of trends," wrote Zulfiqar Bhutta, head of the maternal and child health division at the Aga Khan University ...
May 14, 2012 at 08:03 | Source: AllAfrica.com
A total 7.6 million children died in the first five years of their life that year, the authors said, and warned the world was not on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality by two-thirds by 2015. Two in every ...
May 11, 2012 at 18:00 | Source: Raw Story
Almost one million, or 58 per cent, of Yemen’s children under the age of five are acutely malnourished, and malnutrition is the single most important underlying cause of child mortality, according to UNICEF, which added that the country’s dire ...
May 25, 2012 at 18:55 | Source: UN News Centre
Researchers found that although the burden of deaths among children younger than 5 decreased by 2 million between 2000 and 2010, continued reduction at this rate would not reduce child mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015 as outlined by the United ...
May 9, 2012 at 23:53 | Source: Science Daily