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Pregnancy: The leading cause of death for teenage girls in the developing world
The family planning world is meeting in London this week to make one straightforward request – give 120 million women in the world’s poorest countries access to contraception. Their reasoning is basic: ‘It’s mortality, stupid’.
By Marie Staunton | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Tuesday, 10 July 2012 at 2:00 am
Every mother with their own named midwife? Sounds like an empty promise
Andrew Lansley’s announcement that pregnant women being cared for under the NHS will be provided with a ‘named’ midwife, seems thoroughly unrealistic.
By Grace Jacobson | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 5:30 pm
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