Photo: Alisa Tang/IRIN Only 5 percent of Indonesia’s 5 million poor pregnant women receive government assistance for deliveries attend for three million poor women in 2011 in a bid to reduce the maternal mortality rate. BATAM, 2 August 2010 (IRIN) - The Indonesian government announced it would fund deliveries performed by skilled birtattendantsfor Health Minister Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih said many maternal deaths could be attributed to the use of traditional unskilled birth … [Read more...]
UNHCR – US$33 million programme rewards decades of hospitality in Bangladesh~CELEBRATE!
July 22, 2010 by
TEKNAF, Bangladesh, July 2010 (UNHCR) For Bangladeshi women with pregnancy complications in this poverty-stricken area an emergency transfer to hospital is often beyond their budgets and can be life-threatening. They either have to pay for fuel for the three-hour trip by government ambulance to a hospital in the nearest big town, Cox's Bazar, or risk a long ride over rutted roads in a motorized rickshaw – sometimes too dangerous to contemplate. But two Bangladeshi women facing labour … [Read more...]
Viet Nam – Girls vs. Boys
July 13, 2010 by
When Girls Don’t Count as Much as Boys: Pre-natal Sex Selection in Viet Nam YEN HA VILLAGE, Viet Nam — May 19 was a special day for Thuy and her husband Nghe. Their son was one month old and, as dictated by Vietnamese tradition, they invited their relatives for a party. It was a big reunion, with more than 15 people celebrating the arrival of the new baby. And because it was a baby boy, after three girls, the celebration was all the more heartfelt. Son preference in Viet Nam has deep … [Read more...]
