Experts from Africa and Asia to Discuss Maternal Health in Live Online Chat
23rd March 2009
NEW YORK, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The number one killer of young women in the developing world is not a
disease whose cure eludes us, or a condition which the world lacks the
resources to treat. It is pregnancy and childbirth.
Every year, 500,000 women die while trying to give life. That's one every
single minute.
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Black Health Section Released by NHS Choices
21st July 2008
LONDON, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- NHS Choices (http://www.nhs.uk), the digital 'front door' to the NHS,
launches a new Live well section aimed to help African and African Caribbean
people, and mixed-race people of African or African Caribbean descent,
protect their health. Some conditions, such as diabetes, high blood pressure
and prostate cancer, are more prevalent in people from these communities in
the UK.
Based on NHS accredited information, the Black health section
(...
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