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Invest, Deliver, Advance! A partnership for mother and child health.
17 Aug 2010  Nick Henwood 
The Partnership (PMNCH)
joins the maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) communities into an alliance of more than 300 members to ensure that all women, infants and children not only remain healthy, but thrive.  
 
Reproductive and sexual health

Working within the kinship system enhances community care for onchocerciasis (river blindness).
17 Jul 2010  Nick Henwood 
A new Ugandan study demostrates that a strategy of Ivermectin distribution that worked through kinship links achieved better results than 'standard' care.   
Diseases and disability

Confusion over the use of Mesoprostol for post-partum haemorrhage.

WHO's 2009 guidlines are cautious, but futher evidence presented in the Lancet suggests that a significant reduction in maternal mortality can be achieved at the lowest level of healthcare provision using mesoprostol by mouth or rectally.   
Reproductive and sexual health

 
In the news

Invest, Deliver, Advance! A partnership for mother and child health.  
Tue, 17 Aug 2010
Working within the kinship system enhances community care for onchocerciasis (river blindness).  Uganda,East Africa
Sat, 17 Jul 2010
Confusion over the use of Mesoprostol for post-partum haemorrhage.  
Tue, 13 Jul 2010
Social Determinants of Health  
Mon, 28 Jun 2010
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