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Regional Strategy for Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Reduction
The document Regional Strategy for Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Reduction, was endorsed by Member States at the Pan American Sanitary Conference in September 2002. This strategy represents significant efforts by PAHO and its partner organizations to incorporate the latest research, best practices and experience gained in more than a decade of the Safe Motherhood Movement into concrete steps for countries to fulfill national plans and work toward the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).
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Report of the Regional Consultation on Information, Education and Communication (IEC) on Congenital Chagas Disease (CLAP, Montevideo, 17-18 May 2007)
In epidemiological importance, congenital Chagas disease constitutes the third mode of Trypanosoma cruzi transmission to humans. This consultation lays the foundations for information, education, and communication on which to raise consciousness among individuals, families, communities, society at large, professionals, and policy-makers, in order to act in a timely and sustainable way to diagnose and treat newborns infected by T. cruzi. This 12-page report gives an update, 20 recommendations, the list of participants, agenda, and brief bibliography.
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Healthy Mothers and Children: The Role of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in the Reduction of Maternal and Child Mortality (fact sheet, 2005).
Addresses the role of gender equality and women's empowerment in the reduction of maternal and child mortality.
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PAHO Consultation on Congenital Chagas Disease, Its Epidemiology and Management (Montevideo, Uruguay, 24–25 June 2004, in collaboration with the Latin American Center for Perinatology and Human Development, CLAP)
In this meeting there assembled a select group of researchers, clinicians, and those operating disease-managment programs, mostly from the Southern Cone and with the participation of the Free University of Brussels, Belgium. The objectives were to arrive at and update a situational diagnosis of the disease and its management; to develop guidelines for a management guide; to establish a risk and impact projection on the disease in the Region; and to
generate guidelines to regularly and sustainably implement the necessary actions in the countries. This page offers the report with its 14 recommendations, the agenda, and the list of participants.
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Guiding Principles for Complementary Feeding of the Breastfed Child (Guide, 2002)
These extensive guidelines based on WHO, UNICEF and other sources provide the bases for developing recommendations on complementary feeding--the process of introducing other foods and liquids when breast milk alone is no longer sufficient.
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Quantifying the Benefits of Breastfeeding: A Summary of the Evidence
Each year new evidence contributes to our knowledge of breastfeeding’s role in the survival, growth, and development of a child as well as the health and well-being of a mother. This publication provides scientific and epidemiological evidence in support of the WHO and UNICEF Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding.
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Food and Nutrition
The Food and Nutrition Program (HPN), as part of the Division of Health Promotion and Protection, works to promote the optimal nutritional status and health of the people of the Americas. In addition to focusing on the prevention of the problems of undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies among young children and pregnant women, HPN recognizes the epidemiological transition that is occurring throughout the Region and has expanded its focus to also include the problem of low levels of physical activity and overweight.
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Emergency Contraception in the Americas (Fact Sheet )
Emergency contraception is a controversial and often divisive issue across the Americas. While EC in the form of oral contraceptives is available throughout the Americas (anywhere birth control is legal) knowledge of their existence is not common.
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