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June 4, 2010

 

LANCET - WOMEN DELIVER

 

Young mother with baby in a baby-sling, Bolivia - Copyright: Kopp_Florian/Still Pictures

 

Executive Summary

Large numbers of the public remain unaware of the health issues facing women and children. Women and girls make up 60% of the world’s poorest and two-thirds of the world’s illiterate. Yet with education and empowerment, they can lead healthy lives and lift themselves and their families out of poverty. To devise a plan to make women and children’s health more visible, we must listen harder to voices from those countries where most maternal and child death take place. Too often we ignore these voices. A themed issue of The Lancet covers a range of global issues on maternal, child, and newborn health

 

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The continuing invisibility of women and children

Richard Horton

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India: conditional cash transfers for in-facility deliveries

Vinod K Paul

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Parents’ death and survival of their children

Hussain R Yusuf, Hani K Atrash

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Momentum, mandates, and money: achieving health MDGs

Ann Starrs, Rotimi Sankore

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HIV and maternal mortality: turning the tide

Quarraisha Abdool-Karim, Carla AbouZahr, Karl Dehne, Viviana Mangiaterra, Jack Moodley, Nigel Rollins, Lale Say, Nathan Schaffer, James E Rosen, Isabelle de Zoysa

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A tale of two pills: when culture trumps technology

Cecile Richards, Vanessa Cullins

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Issue Articles

Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2008: a systematic analysis

Robert E Black, Simon Cousens, Hope L Johnson, Joy E Lawn, Igor Rudan, Diego G Bassani, Prabhat Jha, Harry Campbell, Christa Fischer Walker, Richard Cibulskis, Thomas Eisele, Li Liu, Colin Mathers

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Neonatal, postneonatal, childhood, and under-5 mortality for 187 countries, 1970–2010: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4

Julie Knoll Rajaratnam, Jake R Marcus, Abraham D Flaxman, Haidong Wang, Alison Levin-Rector, Laura Dwyer, Megan Costa, Alan D Lopez, Christopher J L Murray

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India’s Janani Suraksha Yojana, a conditional cash transfer programme to increase births in health facilities: an impact evaluation

Stephen S Lim, Lalit Dandona, Joseph A Hoisington, Spencer L James, Margaret C Hogan, Emmanuela Gakidou

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Effect of parent’s death on child survival in rural Bangladesh: a cohort study

Carine Ronsmans, Mahbub E Chowdhury, Sushil K Dasgupta, Anisuddin Ahmed, Marge Koblinsky

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Issue Review

Countdown to 2015 decade report (2000–10): taking stock of maternal, newborn, and child survival

Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Mickey Chopra, Henrik Axelson, Peter Berman, Ties Boerma, Jennifer Bryce, Flavia Bustreo, Eleonora Cavagnero, Giorgio Cometto, Bernadette Daelmans, Andres de Francisco, Helga Fogstad, Neeru Gupta, Laura Laski, Joy Lawn, Blerta Maliqi, Elizabeth Mason, Catherine Pitt, Jennifer Requejo, Ann Starrs, Cesar G Victora, Tessa Wardlaw

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