Foreign Policy: Nepal’s Renegade Strategy to Save Mothers
“…When Nepal launched its own pilot misoprostol program in 2005, home births accounted for more than 80 percent of all deliveries. … When the program started, fewer than 18 percent of births were institutional deliveries. Now, a decade on, an estimated 55 percent of births take place in a facility. And where postpartum hemorrhage was once the leading cause of maternal deaths in Nepal, it has fallen to number two…” (Adams, 5/15).
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Reuters: Brazil dengue outbreak exposes tough challenge for Rousseff
“An epidemic of dengue fever is fanning public anger over what Brazilians say is President Dilma Rousseff’s biggest challenge — the sad state of the national health care system. … Health Minister Arthur Chioro has blamed the outbreak in part on a severe drought in Brazil’s southeast, an area including Sao Paulo where dengue has been most prevalent. … However, many point their finger back at the government. Brazil promises universal health care in its constitution, but the system is underfunded and poorly managed, critics say…” (Winter, 5/12).
