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Reverting five years of progress: Impact of COVID-19 on maternal mortality in Peru
CMI Brief | Jan 2021
Peru has moved back at least five years on its road to reducing maternal mortality, due to the profound impact COVID-19 has had on the capacity of health ...
pregancy, health, covid-19, South America, Peru
Assessing the contribution of malaria vector control and other maternal and child health interventions in reducing all-cause under-five mortality in Zambia, 1990–2010
Journal Article | Sep 2017
Under-five mortality in Zambia has declined since 1990, with reductions accelerating after 2000. Zambia's scale-up of malaria control is viewed as the ...
Angola health survey: Opportunities to reduce maternal and newborn mortality
Angola Brief | Jun 2012
In Angola, every tenth child dies before the age of one. 40% of these deaths happen within 28 days of birth. Angola has among the highest maternal and ...
Angola
Determinants of child mortality in Angola: an econometric analysis
Master's Thesis | Jan 2011
The aim of this thesis is to investigate determinants of child mortality in the regions of Luanda and Uíge in Angola. The country has one of the ...
Child mortality, Angola
CMI partner in new centre of excellence on maternal and child health
News | 15 Oct 2013
Every year, millions of children die before reaching the age of five. 85 percent of child-mother fatalities happen in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The new Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC) focus their efforts here.
Preventable maternal death: a violation of women's rights
Journal Article | Jan 2009
More than one woman dies every minute from preventable causes in childbirth, and for every woman who dies as many as 30 others are left with lifelong, ...
Rewarding Safe Motherhood: How can Performance-Based Funding Reduce Maternal and Newborn Mortality in Tanzania?
CMI Report | Jan 2007
Performance-based funding has been proposed as one mechanism to speed up the implementation of interventions for reduced maternal and newborn mortality. ...
Health sector, Maternal mortality, Child mortality, Economic aspects, Tanzania
Addressing Maternal Mortality: What is the Added Value of Human Rights?
Event | 2 Feb 2010
Alicia Ely Yamin, Joseph H. Flom Fellow on Global Health and Human Rights, and professor II at CMI, argues that using human rights approaches to effectively address maternal mortality challenges human rights paradigms as well as development practice.
Drivers of Health in sub-Saharan Africa: A Dynamic Panel Analysis.
Journal Article | Dec 2020
Globally, life expectancy increased while infant mortality reduced substantially between the 19th and late 20th century. Although there is relatively ...
Epidemiology of Road Traffic Incidents in Peru 1973–2008: Incidence, Mortality, and Fatality
Journal Article | Jan 2014
Socio-economic effects of HIV/AIDS in African countries
Project | Jan - Aug 2001
The present decade will be the worst ever with regard to AIDS morbidity and mortality in Africa. The exception is Uganda, which was early at launching ...
Decentralisation and gender. A study on coordination and cooperation in LGA for maternal health.
Commissioned Report | Nov 2007
Tanzania initiated the Local Government Reform Programme in 1996. The objective of the reform is decentralisation by devolution, and to strengthen local ...
Health, decentralization, Tanzania
The social context of induced abortions among young couples in Côte d\'Ivoire
Journal Article | Jan 2007
The background of the study is the very high prevalence of mortality and morbidity in Sub-Saharan countries due to abortions induced by unsafe methods. ...
unsafe abortion, family planning, reproductive health, youth, Côte d'Ivoire
Norwegian aid is wasted
News | 21 Jun 2013
Or isn't it? Do aid efforts to reduce child mortality actually work? Do projects aimed at female empowerment lead to less violence against women?
Toward Transformative Accountability: A Proposal for Rights-Based Approaches to Maternal Health in the MDGs and Beyond
Journal Article | Jan 2010
Meaningful and equitable progress on reducing maternal mortality and meeting Millennium Development Goal 5 calls for the adoption of a human rights-based ...
Maternal Health, Right to Health, Rights-Based Approach (RBA), Accountability, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Sexual and reproductive rights - a global legal battlefield
CMI Brief | Apr 2013
Millennium Development Goal number 5 (MDG 5) aims to reduce maternal mortality. In this brief we argue that, in the current global context more rigorous ...
Decentralisation and Gender. Coordination and Cooperation on Maternal Health Issues in Selected District Councils in Tanzania
CMI Report | Oct 2008
This empirical study looks at coordination and cooperation within five district councils in Tanzania with a special focus on efforts to reduce maternal ...
Health, Gender, Decentralisation, Tanzania
Gender and decentralisation in Tanzania
Project | Aug 2006 - Dec 2007
This project studies cooperation and coordination on gender issues at district level in Tanzania in cooperation with PMO-RALG (Prime Minister's Office ...
Tanzania
Health services in Angola. Availability, quality and utilisation
CMI Report | Dec 2011
This report discusses the availability and quality of health services in two provinces of Angola (Luanda and Uíge) and reports how households perceive ...
Health, Poverty, Angola
Why don't clinicians adhere more consistently to the guidelines for Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)?
Journal Article | Jan 2014
The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) has been introduced to reduce child morbidity and mortality in countries with a poor health infrastructure. ...
Tanzania