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Infant and childhood health issues

Mother-baby package: implementing safe motherhood in countries

Explanation of how the WHO Mother-Baby Package can be used as a powerful tool for improving the health of mothers and infants.

It has been designed for use in national programmes in the developing world and consists of 18 simple interventions that have the capacity to reduce maternal and infant mortality in resource-poor settings.

Resource link:
http://helid.desastres.net/ ?e=d-000who--000--1-0--010---4-----0--0-10l--11en-5000---50-about-0---01131-001-110utfZz-8-0-0&a=d&c=who&cl=CL1.10&d=Jwho36e
Source: World Health Organization (http://www.who.int/)
Added to ADG on: 30 June 2004 , contributed by: ADG team
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