Press Features

• World Health Day 2005 Fact Sheet
  Healthy Mothers and Children: The Role of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in the Reduction of Maternal and Child Mortality
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• World Health Day 2005 Backgrounder
  There are few things more tragic than the death of a child or a young mother. The world loses more than 11 million children and half a million mothers every year. The tragedy of their deaths is worsened by one startling fact-most of these deaths didn't have to happen.
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• Maternal and Child Mortality: Problems and Solutions
  Comprehensive health care for all is simply not available in most of the Latin American and Caribbean Region. Many women are uneducated about simple health, hygiene and nutrition practices for themselves and their families. The solution to these and other problems would be to raise awareness of maternal and child death, to increase understanding that solutions exist, and to generate a movement toward collective responsibility and action.
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• Practical and Proven Strategies
  From individuals to families and communities, from NGOs to international organizations, from national to local governments-everyone is responsible for making a difference in the fight to decrease the number of deaths in Latin America and the Caribbean. Everyone has a crucial role to play.
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