More than five million families across Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean spend over 40 per cent of their non-food household expenses on maternal health services every year, UNICEF said in a new analysis on maternal health. Nearly two-thirds of these households, or around three million, are in Asia while approximately 1.9 million...
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Advancing Safe Motherhood
Responses from 1.2 million women, collected by mobilizers in 114 countries show reproductive and maternal healthcare is often unsanitary, undignified and under-equipped. White Ribbon Alliance reveals the global results of its ground- breaking What Women Want Campaign; the largest ever open-ended survey into womens opinion on their own needs for quality reproductive and maternal...
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Women with PCOS have higher chances of developing uterine cancer, say experts
April 3, 2018, Dubai, UAE: Polycystic Ovaries Syndrome a prevalent condition among the women in the UAE can increasingly put women at risk of uterine cancer, reducing their chances of fertility. Moreover, PCOS is also a significant cause behind obesity, another major reason for uterine cancer. As per a study published in the...
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On reproductive health in Kenya
For a long time, the state of maternal health in Kenya has been a huge concern. This is because of the many maternal deaths reported every day, most of which are preventable. According to a report by Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS, 2014), fifteen women die every day due to pregnancy-related complications. According...
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Role of Gender in Thyroid Cancer
United Arab Emirates: According to report released during the 12th Middle East Update in Otolaryngology Conference & Exhibition (ME-OTO) held in Dubai earlier this year, the past two decades has seen an almost three-fold increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer globally. Thyroid cancer is the second most common cancer seen among women in the...