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MDG 5: Improve maternal health


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05 June 2007
Female volunteers reduce child-mother mortality in Nepal 
Kathmandu, Nepal: The National Survey of Female Community Health Volunteer (FCHV) has revealed that active mobilisation of female health volunteers has helped reduce child and maternal mortality through the Vitamin A, de-worming tablets, polio vaccination and other campaigns. The country is also marking 20 years of FCHV's Service Day today.  Read article
From: The Rising Nepal
More about: Nepal  Health  MDG 4
17 May 2006
Red Cross Red Crescent boosts efforts to bring global health initiatives to local communities 
Geneva, Switzerland: Representatives of up to 40 Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies are meeting in Geneva for "The Global Health and Care Forum" to strengthen the Federation’s international strategies on key health topics such as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and avian influenza.  Read article
14 November 2005
Remote community receives medical aid from volunteers by Karen Blakeman
Honolulu, USA: A team of medical volunteers from Hawaii provided special gynaecological care to women in the tiny island-state of Kosrae, at the eastern edge of the Federated State of Micronesia.  Read article
11 November 2005
Meet Flora, the face of the future in Sudan by Rosemarie North
Khartoum, Sudan: Flora Hussien has been working for nine years as a Red Crescent volunteer, doing health education in south Sudan.  She is one of the 5,000 unpaid volunteers who are internally displaced and working within their own communities of displaced people in Sudan.  Read article
From: ReliefWeb
More about: Sudan  Health  MDG 4
05 July 2005
Dirt, disease and malnutrition 
Djibouti City, Djibouti: Doctor Robert Thiel, an American volunteer from the Red Sea Mission, runs a government-owned clinic in Arhiba, a filthy slum in the port city of Djibouti. The clinic treats several hundred patients a day, despite having no budget and no running water.   Read article

 

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Volunteerism builds health stations in the Philippines 
Bayanihan - the Filipino concept of community volunteerism - is transforming the social landscape of six Peace and Development Communities (PDCs) as community members lead construction of health stations in a bid to reduce preventable diseases in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Armm).   Visit site
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