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UN Urges Greater Investment in Maternal, Child Health in Asia-Pacific

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The United Nations says maternal and child mortality rates in the Asia-Pacific region are not improving fast enough because of poor access to reproductive health care. U.N. officials say more resources are needed to reach the goal of universal access by 2015.

Asian Region Lags Behind in Reducing Maternal Mortality Rates

By Marwaan Macan-Markar, IPS News service

In landlocked Laos, pregnancy brings with it the spectre of death. South-east Asia's poorest country has recorded over 700 women dying every year due to complications during childbirth.

Road accidents, suicide and maternal conditions are leading causes of death in young people

World Health Organisation-supported of global mortality patterns shows 2.6 million young people die each year

The first study of global patterns of death among people aged between 10-24 years of age has found that road traffic accidents, complications during pregnancy and child birth, suicide, violence, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) are the major causes of mortality. Most causes of death of young people are preventable and treatable. The study, which was supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) and published in The Lancet medical journal, found that 2.6 million young people are dying each year, with 97% of these deaths taking place in low- and middle-income countries.

US: Policy change benefits family planning

The Daily Nation Kenya
29 August 2009

After years of minimum funding to family planning and reproductive health services, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) recently announced a major increase in funds for family planning and reproductive health activities in Kenya.

VIETNAM: Sex selection skews sex ratio

By Helen Clark, IPS News Service
21 August 2009

Vietnam is something of a regional leader when it comes to gender equality. There are laws against domestic violence and discrimination, and very high female literacy. Yet its sex ratio is skewed. For every 100 girls born, there are 112 boys. People prefer sons.

INDONESIA: Safe abortion may help maternal mortality rates

By Fabio Scarpello, IPS News Service

Women's rights groups who are campaigning for widening the scope of abortion in Indonesia are calling for an amendment to a colonial era law that puts poor women at risk.

Slowdown mars poverty reduction goals, ADB says

26 August 2009
By Teresa Cerojano, Associated Press

Large pockets of extreme poverty and hunger persist in Asia, where the global downturn makes it more difficult to achieve U.N. goals to reduce the ranks of the poor, the Asian Development Bank said Wednesday.

ICAAP: Donors meet to talk about HIV and SRHR linkages

Participants at a satellite meeting during the 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific agreed that programs, policies and funding for HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights are disconnected, and discussed practical ways to integrate services and maximize limited resources.

HIV infections on the increase in China

Source: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/

Citing new estimates set to be released in November, the director of the National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention said HIV continues to spread in China, chiefly by sexual transmission from persons in high-risk groups.

South Korea: Number of newborns falls for first time in three years

South Korea: Number of newborns falls for first time in three years

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19 August 2009
By Lee Hyo-sik, Korea Times

The number of babies born in the nation fell for the first time in three years in 2008, with more couples delaying childbirths on increasing financial difficulties amid the tight job market. Rising costs associated with childcare are also said to have discouraged many women here from having babies, making Korea the most rapidly aging nation in the world.

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UN Urges Greater Investment in Maternal, Child Health in Asia-Pacific

Asian Region Lags Behind in Reducing Maternal Mortality Rates

Road accidents, suicide and maternal conditions are leading causes of death in young people

US: Policy change benefits family planning

VIETNAM: Sex selection skews sex ratio

INDONESIA: Safe abortion may help maternal mortality rates

Slowdown mars poverty reduction goals, ADB says

ICAAP: Donors meet to talk about HIV and SRHR linkages

HIV infections on the increase in China

South Korea: Number of newborns falls for first time in three years

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