Health
The heads of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have called for greater access to breastfeeding support to both reduce health inequity and ensure mothers and babies can survive and thrive. more
Despite progress in childbirth safety, one woman or baby dies every 11 seconds
New York: Childbirth survival rates are now a “staggering success” compared with the year 2000, but one pregnant woman - or her child - still dies every 11 seconds from largel ...
Access to legal abortion services needed, to prevent 47,000 women dying each year - UN rights experts
New York,: States across the world should act now to decriminalise abortion and make every effort to ensure women and girls have the right to make their own decisions about pregnancy, sai ...
In Johannesburg, UN youth envoy spotlights need to boost support for reproductive health
New York, Feb 15 (IBNS): In this century, child marriage cannot be allowed to happen, and similarly, children should not give birth to children, the United Nations youth envoy told an Afr ...
