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    Maternal health, Fifth report of session 2007-08, Volume 1

    House of Commons International Development Committee, 2008
    This report by the House of Commons International Development Committee examines how the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and other donors can support progress towards Millennium Development Goal five, to reduce the level of maternal mortality worldwide and attain universal access to reproductive health by 2015.
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    Continuum of care for maternal, newborn, and child health: from slogan to service delivery

    The Lancet, 2007
    This article from The Lancet revisits the idea of a ‘continuum of care’ for mothers, children and newborns. The term, often used as a slogan, usually refers to continuity of individual care and of places of care. However, the authors point out that there are half a million maternal deaths, four million newborn deaths and six million child deaths each year.
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    Saving children’s lives: why equity matters

    Save the Children Fund, 2008
    This Save the Children report considers why millions of children under the age of five continue to die every year, even though proven remedies and practical measures are available to help save them.
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    Achieving child survival goals: potential contribution of community health workers

    The Lancet, 2007
    This Lancet article assesses the role, impact and cost-effectiveness of community health workers (CHW) focusing on their potential for improving child survival rates. The paper looks at who community health workers are and the interventions that can be delivered in community settings.
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    Investing in sanitation for children in East Asia and the Pacific

    UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office, 2008
    This study investigates the need for investment in sanitation in East Asia and the Pacific regions and is designed for national and local policy makers. It highlights the challenges and impacts of the current urban and rural sanitation situation in East Asia and presents what should be done.
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    WASH for children: investing in water, sanitation and hygiene in East Asia and the Pacific

    UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office, 2008
    This report explains why water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is so critical to the health and well-being of children, focusing on East Asia and the Pacific.
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    The state of the worlds children 2008: child survival

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2008
    The State of the World’s Children 2008 provides a wide-ranging assessment of the current state of child survival and primary health care for mothers, newborns and children. The report argues that these issues serve as sensitive barometers of a country’s development and wellbeing and as evidence of its priorities and values, and states that investing in the health of children and t
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    Giving girls today and tomorrow: breaking the cycle of adolescent pregnancy

    United Nations Population Fund, 2007
    This document investigates the extent to which adolescent marriage and pregnancy inhibits the future of young girls. It particularly focuses on evidence from countries where early marriages and high risk pregnancies are most common.
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    The decline in paediatric malaria admissions on the coast of Kenya

    Malaria Journal, BioMed Central, 2007
    This article, published in the Malaria Journal examines the health impacts resulting from the expanded coverage of malaria control and preventative strategies in Kenya. The article analyses trends in monthly malaria admissions in three District hospitals situated along the Kenyan coast between January 1999 and March 2007.
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    Effect of city-wide sanitation programme on reduction in rate of childhood diarrhoea in northeast Brazil: assessment by two cohort studies

    The Lancet, 2007
    This Lancet article investigates the effect of a sanitation programme in Salvador, Brazil, on diarrhoea morbidity in children less than three years of age. The programme was started in 1997 to improve the coverage of the sewerage system in the city from 26 per cent of households to 80 per cent.

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