Press Releases

• Media Advisory: World Health Day April 7 to Focus on Mothers, Children
  Maternal and child health is the theme for World Health Day 2005 celebration on April 7th, which also marks the launch of the 2005 edition of the WHO World Health Report, an annual "report card" of global health.
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• Experts analyze maternal and child health in the Border
  The "Every mother and child counts!" Press Conference will inform the media about the celebration of World Health Day (WHD) and launch the World Health Report 2005. The main theme for WHD is healthy mothers and children. The Press Conference will be on April 6, at 11:00 AM at the Brownsville Events Center, Major Jacob Brown Room, 1 Events Center Blvd., Brownsville, Texas.
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• World Health Day 2005 to Focus on Healthy Mothers, Children
  World Health Day 2005 will focus on health mothers and children as part of an effort to reduce the number of women who die from pregnancy-related causes and the number of young children who die. Every year more than half a million women around the world die from pregnancy-related causes and about 11 million children die, 40 percent of them in the first month of life, according to World Health Organization figures.
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