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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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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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Health in the Americas, 2007
This 2007 edition of Health in the Americas presents a broad picture of the regional situation and that of all the countries with regard to health and human development; specific disease conditions and risk factors;
environmental health, and the evolution of health systems and services. In addition, it considers and discusses progress made regarding the global commitment, expressed in the United Nations Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs), to tackle extreme poverty, hunger, disease, lack of water and sanitation, inadequate housing, and social exclusion and to promote gender equality, education, and environmental sustainability. That expression of countries’ collective commitment to social equity informs the text throughout this publication.
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A Consensus to Reduce Neonatal Mortality.
BLOG's article.- Every three minutes, a neonatal death occurs in Latin America. This is completely unacceptable, as the available knowledge should permit a substantial reduction in that rate through relatively low-cost measures. Tens of thousands of newborn lives could be saved each year, and the Region would achieve the reduction in child deaths contemplated in the Millennium Development Goals. PAHO Director's BLOG Article.
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World Breastfeeding Week Starts Aug. 1 in the Americas
Countries throughout the Americas are joining together August 1-7 to observe World Breastfeeding Week, which focuses this year on the importance of breastfeeding in the first hour of life. Breastfeeding in the first hour of life and exclusive breastfeeding for six months can save more than one million babies. More »
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