Tag: #maternal health
Articles tagged with #maternal health
Motherhood in the Madhes
Chance for Nepal’s new government to fulfil its campaign promise to improve healthcare access
Target 2030 for maternal and newborn health
Nepal's healthcare community is striving to reach the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, focusing on high-risk districts
Saving one mother at a time
Behind Nepal’s dramatic progress in reducing the maternal mortality ratio, there are heroic stories like this
Nepal lagging in safe motherhood
Faced with USAID cuts, maternal health needs systemic change to meet United Nations targets
Philanthropy in an era of declining development aid
Focus on proven solutions like investing in prenatal nutrition, rather than on flashy, multisectoral schemes with no immediate payoff
Muktikot still waiting for liberation
Two decades after Maoists promised prosperity, this Dalit village in Nepal has been forgotten
Saving more mothers and babies
How Nepal can revive stalled progress in improving maternal and child health
Poverty killed a mother, not the quake
It was being poor that cost Sharmila her life, not winter cold after the Jajarkot earthquake
Remove barriers to life-saving drug to prevent maternal deaths
An ambitious program launched in the mid-2000s to protect women who give birth at home faces opposition, neglect and shortages
Saving one Nepali mother at a time
Rural Nepali mothers need more nurses like Anju Chaudhary
Mothers of Sarlahi
More women use health facilities to be as healthy as possible before giving birth and for safe delivery
Another baby's life is saved in rural Nepal
Nurses Puspa Pandhak and Sumnima Khapung delivering the baby inside a jeep late at night on 3 March, after concluding that they could not reach…
Covid undermines Nepal's mother-child gains
Photos: UNICEF NEPALDespite periods of political and economic instability, Nepal achieved dramatic progress in maternal and child health in the…
A tall order
Photo: HIMALMEDIAA white-coated nurse holding a blue and white, half-litre bag of milk stands in front of a small group of mothers seated near…
Nepal must work on human rights
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, urging him to uphold the rights of Nepali citizens…
Saving Nepali mothers on Mother’s Day
Dedicated nurse returns to the village of her birth to run a birthing centre, and save lives during the pandemic
“What can be more fulfilling than saving lives?”
Social entrepreneur fulfils promise to his mother to improve maternal care in rural Nepal
Covid-19 to reverse child survival gains
Photo: OM ASTHA RAI/NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEThe world recorded an all-time low under-five deaths in 2019, but the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in…
3 Nepali mothers still die daily at childbirth
Photo: MARTY LOGANIt should not be surprising that Nepal’s first COVID-19 death was a new mother. What was surprising was to hear Prime Minister…
Newborn deaths and a vision for a post-pandemic Nepal
The overall trend in neo-natal deaths is positive, but the poorest families will lag behind further as inequality grows
No conceivable reason for unwanted pregnancies
Lack of access to and awareness of family planning, the prevalence of unhealthy superstitions and taboos, and the desire to produce a son…
When panic goes viral
Nepali students on their way to the quarantine centre in Bhaktapur after landing in Kathmandu Airport on Sunday morning. Photo: RSSThe global…
Who will save Nepal’s poor new mothers?
25-year-old Batu Chadara, from Dandabasa village, Pandusen was nine months pregnant and was going to return a rooster she had borrowed. Photos:…
Federalism leaves Nepal’s medical sector ailing
https://youtu.be/FmieAvLuWBoFederalism was supposed to bring the government closer to the people, decentralise medical care and improve public…