CIENCIASMEDICASNEWS: CDC Around the World This Week: March 8 is International Women's Day

martes, 4 de marzo de 2014

CDC Around the World This Week: March 8 is International Women's Day

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PHOTO OF THE WEEK

As we commemorate International Women's Day on March 8,
we are reminded of the health challenges faced by women
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Spotlighted Topic of the Week: International Women's Day

In the News

On the Calendar

Spotlighted Topic of the Week: International Women's Day

Blog of the Week

PREVENTING MATERNAL DEATHS IN AFRICA

Maternal health has improved in most regions of the world, with far fewer women dying during pregnancy and childbirth than 20 years ago. Progress in sub-Saharan Africa, however, has been much slower. HIV and complications of childbirth are the leading causes of death among reproductive age women around the world, but above all in this region…read blog

Infographic of the Week

PREVENTING TRANSMISSION OF HIV FROM MOTHERS TO THEIR BABIES

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Infographic: With antiretroviral drugs, an HIV-positive mother's risk of transmitting the virus to her child is less than 5%

Video of the Week

REDUCING MATERNAL MORTALITY IN SOMALIA

In Somaliland, only a third of women giving birth have any kind of skilled personnel with them—and, in rural areas, the numbers are much lower. Now a three-year-long program is slowly changing this reality…watch video

Story of the Week

LILLIAN AND BABY ROSE: AN HIV-POSITIVE MOTHER GETS HELP FROM CDC

Lillian, a 20-year-old mom living in rural Nyanza province, first met Dr. Abraham Katana during her first antenatal visit at the Siaya District Hospital. She was five months pregnant and just learning she was HIV-positive. Dr. Katana, the study coordinator for KEMRI/CDC's Intermittent Preventive Treatment for malaria in Pregnancy (IPTp)-with Mefloquine study, encouraged her to be part of his malaria study…read story