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
maternal-health
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
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