Maternal health

The month of May is the month of mothers.

Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur (Special, 2001) on behalf of the Committee for Social Development of the Conference of Non Governmental Organizations in Consultative Status with the United Nations

The number of maternal deaths was 24 in 2001 and 30 in 2002, with the following distribution.

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And I'm going to talk about annual pregnancies and HlV positive mothers.

Maternal health care is also a barometer of how well a health system functions.

UNICEF recognizes the centrality of integrated programmes to support a continuum of care for mothers and their children.

This will involve the provision of support and medication to infected mothers throughout pregnancy and birth.

And of course, we think it's precisely what you really should be saying to mothers who have kids for the first time.

MSPAS has also taken action to reduce maternal mortality, such as the establishment of cantonal maternity clinics and maternal and child comprehensive health care centres, and the strengthening of the programme to extend coverage in areas identified as critical.

Finally, there must be sufficient facilities for teenage mothers and pregnant teenagers.

The State provides special protection to mothers and children through maternity leave, shortened working hours for mothers of large families, increasing the network of maternity hospitals, pre schools and kindergartens and other measures.

8. Increasing and improving girls education by paying mothers to send them to school

It is necessary to have technical courses of improvement and humanization in dealing with the mother and the newborn.

Between 2001 and 2003, people's health care, especially for mothers and children, was unceasingly improved.

Another programme, implemented in partnership with NGOs and community groups, supplemented the nutrition of nursing mothers.

We have a pram service on Tuesday mornings for mums and their pre school children.

The needs are basic promoting breastfeeding, food supplies for young children, and medical attention for mothers.

Just as single mothers were irrationally castigated then, so today an equally irrational hagiography has risen around them. (Europe has more single mothers than the US, but, characteristically, has less need to moralize about them one way or the other).

Antenatal visits are free and dietary supplements of iron are provided to expectant mothers.

Statement submitted by Association tunisienne des mères, a non governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council

RG And of course, we think it's precisely what you really should be saying to mothers who have kids for the first time.

Special programmes for addicted mothers. An important part is played by programmes developed in recent years for the treatment of addicted mothers.

The right of the child from the State and society to extend medical information and services for mothers in order to raise awareness and help them improve the health of their children.

The weekly educational programmes for mothers organized by the Korean Democratic Women's Union and the Women's Association provided an opportunity to share information and exchange experiences.

For mothers to deliver oxygen to a fetus, it is necessary for the fetal hemoglobin to extract oxygen from the maternal oxygenated hemoglobin across the placenta.

This project is undertaken in partnership with the Queen Mothers Association, women of the traditional system who are responsible for the youth.

In both 1991 and 2000 single mother households accounted for more than 88 of all single parent households.

A third programme provided income to mothers whose children were in school and had pushed primary school enrolment to 98 per cent.

This is still an area, which calls for further investigation, together with a deeper understanding of attitudes about contraception and abortion as well as availability of adequate support services for young mothers.

Mothers and older siblings become free to work or to further their own education.

Technical and policy support has also been provided to the Ministry of Public Health in the establishment of norms and standards for maternal and newborn health care.

Paragraph 5 (i) As mentioned above, the measures taken by the authorities have helped reduce infant and maternal mortality rates and have curbed the spread of disease by foreigners who enter the country illegally.

UNICEF reported that although the overall health service coverage had been stable, the utilization and quality of maternal and child health services continued to be jeopardized.

Parties must also provide paid leave or adequate social security to mothers before and after childbirth, an obligation which overlaps with that of Article 9.

In rural areas, community education initiatives had been instituted for children between the ages of three and five and scholarships for girls were available from civil society groups.

Of the 146 maternal deaths recorded in 2002, 116 were due to obstetric causes and 30, to non obstetric causes. The following table shows the distribution of direct and indirect obstetric deaths.

The report referred to situations in which girls were perceived as a legitimate sexual replacement for the mother if the mother was sterile, an allegation which was entirely condemned by the Government of El Salvador.

The Action Plan, in terms of health protection of mothers and children, should place an emphasis on implementation of prevention programmes that are also set out in the Action Plan of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Law 3089 2002 on medical support to human reproduction , provides the terms and requirements for artificial insemination and allows unmarried women to have children in this manner.

Global health and nutrition partnerships have been instrumental in advocating for and raising the profile of health and nutrition for mothers and children both nationally and internationally.

The right to assistance for mothers in feeding a child up to six months it is a right exercised only in Sarajevo canton by 800 users in the amount of 44 KM.

The Committee is also concerned about the information that mothers are not allowed to stay with their hospitalized children free of charge unless the child is less than 6 months of age.

The mothers could sell their craftwork to buy extra things for their children, who were with them at night, and when breastfeeding infants they were provided with special suites with all the necessary facilities.