The World Health Organization has appointed Dr Vanessa Kerry as the WHO Director-General’s Special Envoy for Health Resilience. Building on her previous role as WHO’s first Director-General Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health, Dr Kerry will help advance a broader agenda focused on building resilient, integrated and sustainably-financed health systems capable of responding to…
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made a $1.2 million donation to strengthen maternal and newborn health services in Pakistan
In March 2024, Jessica Serdar awoke in the middle of the night with a feeling she couldn’t ignore. At 34 weeks pregnant, her baby had stopped moving.
Bereaved parents are urging families to come forward ahead of the first in a series of public meetings linked to a major review of maternity and neonatal services in Sussex
AT 13 years of age, Sana was engaged to a cousin 10 years older than her. Marriage followed soon after. Naturally, the process of her physical and cognitive development was still in a crucial stage. Her father’s only source of income was small-scale farming, and she grew up stunted and undernourished. Poverty and uncertainty due…
BRASILIA, Brazil – “Black women are the majority of women living in precarious conditions in our country,” said Isabela Cristina Correia de Lima Lima, a Brazilian singer-songwriter, known professionally as IZA. “And of course that extends to pregnancy, to the moment of birth.”
A newborn was admitted to Nangarhar Regional Hospital in eastern Afghanistan in February last year with sepsis and birth asphyxia, needing a constant supply of oxygen to survive. Yet the oxygen plant that supplied piped oxygen to 50 paediatric beds had stopped functioning – a month before, the Trump administration had ordered a freeze on…
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Bereaved parents are urging families to come forward ahead of the first in a series of public meetings linked to a major review of maternity and neonatal services in Sussex
Srinagar: Kashmir is in the grip of mental health crises with the disease more prevalent among women than men while children also remain affected by the ailment
AT 13 years of age, Sana was engaged to a cousin 10 years older than her. Marriage followed soon after. Naturally, the process of her physical and cognitive development was still in a crucial stage. Her father’s only source of income was small-scale farming, and she grew up stunted and undernourished. Poverty and uncertainty due…
YAZOO CITY, Miss. (WLBT) -U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson cut the ribbon Monday on the new G.A. Carmichael Family Health Center on Grand Avenue, marking the opening of a $7 million, 23,000-square-foot facility designed to expand healthcare access in Yazoo County
The fear of losing custody of his three children is reportedly impending on Perez Hilton as he is facing a mental health crisis