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Africa: Jovago, Unicef Partner to Enhance Infant Registration in Africa
Jovago.com - an online hotel booking company- and UNICEF have launched a partnership with the aim of ensuring official birth registration of every child born in Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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$25M gift to U-M will help Third World moms, babies
An anonymous donor has given the University of Michigan $25 million to bring reproductive health medicine to remote areas in Africa.
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Malawi HIV infections down
The Malawi Ministry of Health said new HIV infections have reduced from 52,000 to 35,000 per year.
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Philips, PET to commercialise Wind-Up Fetal Heart Rate Monitor
Royal Philips has announced a partnership with South Africa based not-for-profit organization, PET (PowerFree Education Technology), to further develop, test and commercialise a Wind-up Doppler Ultrasound Fetal Heart Rate Monitor aimed at addressing the high rates of preventable infant mortality across Africa.
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Happy World Contraception Day: Universal access to reproductive health care would save lives, money and increase empowerment
More than 200 million girls and women around the world currently have an unmet need for modern contraception. That’s just one reason that providing universal access to reproductive health care is one of the great human rights issues of the 21st century.
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PRESS RELEASE: Unilever and USAID Call for a World-Wide Hygiene Intervention for Newborns
Handwashing with soap is one of the most cost-effective ways to reduce preventable diseases like diarrhea and pneumonia, which are the main causes of child mortality.
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Redesigning Birth Control in the Developing World
How single-use injectable contraceptives could change family planning in Africa.
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Mobile Midwifery Delivers Health to Ghanaian Moms
One mobile phone app delivers time-sensitive text messages or voicemails to pregnant women and new mothers; the other is for nurses. Together they are doing wonders for maternal and pregnancy health care and raising community awareness at the same time.
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- Health Care, Technology
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