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PAHO Multi-Country Study: Exploring the Association between Intimate Partner Violence and Maternal and Perinatal Health
Protocol for a multinational domestic violence study which will be carried out among in women in puerperium stage who have given birth in selected hospitals in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Argentina and Guyana.
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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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Strategic directions of technical cooperation
FCH strategic directions for 2006-07 biennium.
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Health of Mothers, Newborns, and Children in the Framework of Family and Community Health
Power point presentation by Dr. Gina Tambini on health of mothers, newborns, and children in the framework of Family and Community Health.
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FCH Situational Analysis for LAC BPB 2006-2007
Situational analysis report of maternal mortality and women's health in the LAC region for the LAC BPB 2006-2007.
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Domestic violence and maternal, infant, and reproductive health: A critical review of the literature
A summary of existing research exploring the association between domestic violence and health problems, focusing mainly on maternal and infant health, and also exploring the relationship between domestic violence and reproductive health, mental health, and physical health.
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IPCA: Initiative of the Countries of Central America for Control of Vector-Borne and Transfusional Transmission and Medical Care for Chagas Disease
This information sheet describes the activities of the subregional initiative to fight Chagas Disease in Central America, where PAHO and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) collaborate with the country health authorities. It contains links to proceedings from meetings, project facts, maps, IEC materials, photos, etc. More »
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Women and Children Must be Shielded Against Impact of Global Food Price Increase
The regional heads of ECLAC, PAHO, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, and WFP issued an urgent call on the governments of Latin America and the Caribbean to take timely action to ensure the protection of children and pregnant and lactating women against soaring food prices. More »
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CE142/12 - Neonatal Health within the Continuum of Maternal, Newborn, and Child Care: Regional Strategy and Plan of Action
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PAHO Director: Gender Inequality is Completely Unacceptable
Washington, D.C., March 10, 2008 (PAHO)— More than a third of women in Latin America and the Caribbean have suffered violence at the hands of their domestic partners, more than 22,000 die each year in childbirth from preventable causes, and women and girls account for a growing proportion of all new cases of HIV.
These and similar examples of gender inequality are "completely unacceptable," said Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director Dr. Mirta Roses today at an event celebrating International Women's Day 2008, held at PAHO headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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Gender Equality: Let's Get Real
Director's speech at the celebration of International Women's Day 2008.
"... We need to get real about the persistently high rates of gender based violence, about the stubbornly high and unjust rates of maternal mortality, about the increasing casualties from accidents among our men and boys, about the alarming HIV infections among women and girls, especially in our Caribbean countries, about the essential and unpaid care, about women and men's different needs and realities, about health differences between women and men, about funding women's empowerment ..." More »
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