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  Global Report on MDG 5: Improve Maternal Health

  2010

  It is important to recognize that improving maternal health goes hand in hand with the improvement of other social determinants that go beyond women’s needs in health care services.
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  Women's perceptions of homebirths in two rural medical districts in Burkina Faso: a qualitative study

  Reproductive Health, 2011

  In developing countries, most childbirth occurs at home and is not assisted by skilled attendants. The situation increases the risk of death for both mother and child and has severe maternal complications. The purpose of this study was to describe women's perceptions of homebirths in the medical districts of Ouargaye and Diapaga. Methods: A qualitative approach was used to gather information.
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  Gender influences in child survival, health and nutrition: a narrative review

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2011

  There is increasing recognition in the field of international health and nutrition that gender inequities and dynamics are a major social determinant of health and nutrition outcomes. However, reviews of evidence to date have tended to concentrate on comparisons of health and nutrition outcomes, healthcare utilisation or coverage of services/programmes between boys and girls or women and men.
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  Do Pre-natal and Post-natal Economic Shocks Have a Long-lasting Effect on the Height of 5-year-old Children?

  Young Lives, 2010

  While the Ethiopian national emergency and food security programmes support farmers hit by area-wide shocks such as crop failure, idiosyncratic shocks such as illness and death of household member, loss of assets and separation or divorce are not covered.
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  Coverage of malaria protection in pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa: a synthesis and analysis of national survey data

  The Lancet, 2011

  Malaria infection during pregnancy can lead to very poor outcomes for the mother and child. In 2007, there were about 32 million pregnancies in malaria-endemic areas in sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2010

  World Bank, 2012

  This report presents the global, regional and country estimates of maternal mortality in 2010, as well as trends from 1990 to 2010.
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  Adding it up: the costs and benefits of investing in family planning and maternal and newborn health

  Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2010

  An estimated 215 million women who want to avoid a pregnancy are not using an effective method of contraception. This report shows that family planning and maternal and newborn services fall well short of needs in developing countries.
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  "It's her responsibility": partner involvement in prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV programmes, northern Tanzania

  Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2011

  Partner involvement has been deemed fundamental in prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) programmes, but is difficult to achieve. This study aimed to explore acceptability of the PMTCT programme components and to identify structural and cultural challenges to male involvement. The study was conducted in rural and urban areas in northern Tanzania.
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  Complications of childbirth and maternal deaths in Kinshasa hospitals: testimonies from women and their families

  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2011

  Maternal mortality in Kinshasa is high despite near universal availability of antenatal care and hospital delivery. Possible explanations are poor-quality care and delays in the uptake of care. There is, however, little information on the circumstances surrounding maternal deaths. This study describes and compares the circumstances of survivors and non survivors of severe obstetric complications.
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  Mapping of health system functions to strengthen priority programs. The case of maternal health in Mexico

  BMC Public Health, 2011

  Health system strengthening is critical to ensure the integration and scaling-up of priority health promotion, disease prevention and control programs. Normative guidelines are available to address health system function imbalances while strategic and analytical frameworks address critical functions in complex systems.

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