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Pakistan, 2011: A girl plays with her younger sibling on a charpai, a traditional woven bed, outside their tent in a camp in Aman Kot Village in Nowshera District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province. Through partners, UNICEF supports the camp with clean water & sanitation facilities, child-friendly spaces and health & nutrition services.
18 February 2011
© UNICEF Pakistan/2011/Shehzad Noorani
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A mom and her newborn baby at the Maternal & Child Health Training Institute for medically needy in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Maternal mortality remains a very serious concern in Asia and the Pacific – especially in South and South-West Asia, which has one third of the world’s maternal deaths. Only 5% of births in Nepal and 19% in India were attended by skilled personnel in 2006, according to UNESCAP.
Photo ID 451897. 14/06/2010. Dhaka, Bangladesh. UN Photo/Kibae Park. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/
A mother with her young child visits a mobile clinic in the village of Asulau, in Hatolia sub-district of Ermera District.
Photo ID 480396. 18/07/2011. Asulau Village, Timor-Leste. UN Photo/Martine Perret. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/
Sirajganj, Bangladesh, 2014
Who are you ???
Ohh, you want to hear my story.
I came with a dream to smile with the color and joy I have imagined about your world. But, here I am, suffering with pneumonia and lying in a hospital bed. It was about 2.00 AM when I arrived, and my dad bring me here in the morning. I don't have a name yet.
Your world is terrible. I was better from where I came. You people don't even care about us and making this place more uncomfortable for those who will arrive shortly.
Community health worker, Rebati, gives babies like Adilya, polio and other life saving vaccinations for at least the first year of their lives. Britain is working with the Government of Odisha, one of India's poorest states, and UNICEF, to save the lives of thousands of mums and babies.
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Pakistan, 2010: After a week when flood water had gone down in KPK, I reached a village in Nowshera and I was very upset to see the living conditions of children. I was able to get very shocking pictures. There was this child sleeping on charpai in the middle of contaminated floodwater.
© UNICEF Pakistan/2010/Asad Zaidi
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Meet Mwanasha, she’s 21 years old and already a mum-of-two. She’s a farmer living in a remote area in southern Malawi.
Background
On 11 July 2012 the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will host a groundbreaking summit to cut in half the current number of women and girls in the world’s poorest countries without access to contraception, but who wish to avoid pregnancy or space their children.
Every woman and girl deserves the opportunity to to determine her own future. Contraceptives give the world's poorest women the power to decide if and when to have another child.
Find out more at www.dfid.gov.uk/changinglives
To follow the London Summit on Family Planning visit www.dfid.gov.uk/fpsummit
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Charles Machiridza, 52, a nurse at the Chiparawe Clinic, Marondera, administers a HIV test.
"We try to encourage couples to come to get tested or if one has tested positive, the other should come as soon as possible. Usually it is the woman that finds out first, but trying to get her husband in is a challenge", says Charles.
Rapid HIV tests can yield results in less than ten minutes. If a woman tests positive for HIV, she will be offered support from on-site counsellors to help her come to terms with her diagnosis and begin her enrolment on the PMTCT program. Understanding one’s HIV status is the critical first step in preventing mother-to-child transmission.
To find out more about how the UK government is tackling the spread of HIV and AIDS in developing countries, please visit: www.dfid.gov.uk/wad2010
Words and pictures supplied by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, which is partly funded by the UK Government.
Over the next four years British aid to Nigeria will help save the lives of 1 million women, like Hauwa and Hadiza. Hauwa's, dream now is that one day her daughter will become a health worker, "I want her to become a nurse. I pray she will help others in the same way I have been helped"
Find out more about how the UK is helping mothers and babies in Nigeria and around the world at www.dfid.gov.uk/mothersday2011
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Esnart has four children and has lost four babies in childbirth. She came for family planning services and decided to have a sterilisation because she does not want to get pregnant again.
On average women in Malawi have six children. Yet families nationally say their preferred family size would be four children.
Background
On 11 July 2012 the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will host a groundbreaking summit to cut in half the current number of women and girls in the world’s poorest countries without access to contraception, but who wish to avoid pregnancy or space their children.
Every woman and girl deserves the opportunity to to determine her own future. Contraceptives give the world's poorest women the power to decide if and when to have another child.
Find out more at www.dfid.gov.uk/changinglives
To follow the London Summit on Family Planning visit www.dfid.gov.uk/fpsummit
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Pakistan, 2010: Children attend class in a village of Nowshera district, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, which was heavily affected by the floods. The school, that was also damaged, was rehabilitated with the support of UNICEF. © UNICEF Pakistan/2010/Marta Ramoneda
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Regardless of their HIV status, mothers like Farai in Zimbabwe (pictured) can access health information from a Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission programme, during pregnancy and the birth of their children.
More than 90 percent of HIV infections in children result from mother-to-child transmission, where the virus is passed from a mother living with HIV to her baby during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding. The most effective method for preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission is by initiating lifelong antiretrovial therapy (ART) as early as possible.
According to the United Nations, the use of antiretrovials has averted an estimated 200,000 new HIV infections in children over the last 12 years, the vast majority since 2005.
To find out more about how the UK government is tackling the spread of HIV and AIDS in developing countries, please visit: www.dfid.gov.uk/wad2010
Words and pictures supplied by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, which is partly funded by the UK Government.
Britain is working with the Government of Odisha (Orissa), one of India's poorest states, and UNICEF to save the lives of thousands of mums and babies. The scheme has been so successful, 8 out of 10 mums now get vital ante and post natal care in Odisha.
Swarna is one of them. She and her baby boy Satyasworup are back home from the neo-natal survival unit safe and well. He is one of 7,500 newborn babies who have been prevented from dying needlessly this year - and of the 250,000 Britain will help poor countries save over the next three years.
Satyasworup will stay looked after in the system all year until he is even stronger and healthier.
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Britain is working with the Government of Odisha, one of India's poorest states, and UNICEF to save the lives of thousands of mums and babies.
Find out more at www.dfid.gov.uk/changinglives
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Pakistan, 2010: Kids fleeing floodwaters queue as they wait to receive food handouts at a makeshift relief camp in People stand on the outskirts of Sukkur in Pakistan's Sindh province.
© UNICEF Pakistan/2010/Asad Zaidi
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UNICEF strongly recommends six months of exclusive breastfeeding. In this hospital, women are helped by expert lactation specialist. They also receive information on reproductive health.
Pakistan, 2011: A girl from Kandar camp, Nowshera in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province plays outside her tent. Families in this camp are being encouraged to head back to their communities now that six months have passed since the floods struck, but most cannot. "How can they ask us to leave? We have nothing to go back to," the flood victims plead woefully.
4 February 2011
© UNICEF Pakistan/2011/Sami Malik
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Young mum Mphatso Gumulira, 15, with her son Zayitwa in the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Blantyre, Malawi. She had to drop out of school when she became pregnant. Up to a quarter of girls in sub-Saharan Africa drop out of school due to unintended pregnancies.
Mphatso's advice for girls is to, "Get educated first and you can have children after that once you are on a responsible way. You will be able to do many things on your own and take care of your family."
Mwanasha hopes her grandmother will look after her son so she can return to school.
"My ambition is to become a lawyer to help my child in the future and to teach him to be a responsible person."
< Background
On 11 July 2012 the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will host a groundbreaking summit to cut in half the current number of women and girls in the world’s poorest countries without access to contraception, but who wish to avoid pregnancy or space their children.
Every woman and girl deserves the opportunity to to determine her own future. Contraceptives give the world's poorest women the power to decide if and when to have another child.
Find out more at www.dfid.gov.uk/changinglives
To follow the London Summit on Family Planning visit www.dfid.gov.uk/fpsummit
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Pakistan, 2010: Children play at a UNICEF-supported Child Friendly Space (CFS) in a camp for people affected by the floods in Sukkur, Sindh province. To protect children and women, UNICEF has established 303 static and mobile Child Friendly Spaces providing education, recreation and counseling to 104,400 children and women.
14 December 2010
© UNICEF Pakistan/2010/Marta Ramoneda
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PHOTO OF THE WEEK: A young girl stands next to a mud oven holding nan she prepared for her family in a temporary camp in the village of Kharbella in Charsada, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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Brenda, 16, (left) and her older sister Atupele, 18, (right) are academically bright but had to drop out of school because their family could not afford the fees. Both are now young mothers.
Young women aged 15-19 are twice as likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth as older women and starting young means a woman’s risk of dying of pregnancy and childbirth related causes in her lifetime is higher.
Background
On 11 July 2012 the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will host a groundbreaking summit to cut in half the current number of women and girls in the world’s poorest countries without access to contraception, but who wish to avoid pregnancy or space their children.
Every woman and girl deserves the opportunity to to determine her own future. Contraceptives give the world's poorest women the power to decide if and when to have another child.
Find out more at www.dfid.gov.uk/changinglives
To follow the London Summit on Family Planning visit www.dfid.gov.uk/fpsummit
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Pakistan, 2011: Children gaze at the camera while in the background, tents dot the landscape of the Nahqi camp. Children constitute nearly sixty percent of the displaced population residing in Nahqi camp in conflict-affected Mohmand Agency, in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Some 5,530 families were registered as displaced due to insecurity. The families, with an average family size of six people, have been registered in two IDP camps. Around 1,600 families have returned to their home areas.
UNICEF has been providing emergency health, nutrition, WASH, education and child protection support to displaced children and women. Implementing partners are now providing clean drinking water, sanitation, non-food items and hygiene awareness. UNICEF is also supporting health services, including two labour rooms and an ambulance service. Some 15,813 children were vaccinated against measles and 8,884 vaccinated against polio. Ten Child Friendly Spaces have been established in the two camps and two tented schools set up. With some families now returning to their areas of origin, early recovery interventions will be needed.
4 March 2011
© UNICEF Pakistan/2011/Jameel
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In Malawi, pregnancy and childbirth is a matter of life and death. One in 36 women die in childbirth compared to one in 4,600 in the UK.
Background
On 11 July 2012 the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will host a groundbreaking summit to cut in half the current number of women and girls in the world’s poorest countries without access to contraception, but who wish to avoid pregnancy or space their children.
Every woman and girl deserves the opportunity to to determine her own future. Contraceptives give the world's poorest women the power to decide if and when to have another child.
Find out more at www.dfid.gov.uk/changinglives
To follow the London Summit on Family Planning visit www.dfid.gov.uk/fpsummit
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The Chitungwiza Children’s psychosocial support group was established in 2001 and is regularly attended by over 100 children. Like many support groups, it is run by organisations made up of parents and community leaders.
Families living with HIV/AIDS are often at a disadvantage that can leave children vulnerable and uncared for properly. The PSS group teaches children how to cope with exploitation and where to go for help.
The children in the group are from a mixture of backgrounds and can be both HIV-positive and negative. Meetings consist of games, singing, story-telling, drama performances and education sessions on HIV and AIDS.
To find out more about how the UK government is tackling the spread of HIV and AIDS in developing countries, please visit: www.dfid.gov.uk/wad2010
Words and pictures supplied by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, which is partly funded by the UK Government.
Pakistan, 2010: A woman breastfeeds her child as she watches her baby sleep at a camp for people affected by the floods in Charsadda district, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. © UNICEF Pakistan/2010/Marta Ramoneda
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Ruth, 24, has two children – Shamin who is 5 years old and Brian who is 4 months old. Her husband works as a clinician at a hospital and she is a primary school teacher at a local school.
"If I had lots of children, I think my life would have been in danger because I would be giving birth frequently. There would be dire poverty in our house and we would not have enough food for all the children that I would have had."
Ruth has access to contraceptives through a UK aid supported scheme.
“We look to the future as being bright because our children will be able to go to school, our family will be educated and we will be eating well because we will have all our basic needs met.”
With access to family planning she is able to have a professional career and is hoping to train as a nurse.
“I want to go back to school and take exams again because I want to go to nursing school...I am sure that with family planning I will be able to achieve what I want because I will not be having another baby in the near future."
Background
On 11 July 2012 the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will host a groundbreaking summit to cut in half the current number of women and girls in the world’s poorest countries without access to contraception, but who wish to avoid pregnancy or space their children.
Every woman and girl deserves the opportunity to to determine her own future. Contraceptives give the world's poorest women the power to decide if and when to have another child.
Find out more at www.dfid.gov.uk/changinglives
To follow the London Summit on Family Planning visit www.dfid.gov.uk/fpsummit
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In Zimbabwe, through the work of the Elizabeth Glaser Foundation, over 620,000 pregnant women were attended to, out of which 72% were tested for HIV. Through the dedication of staff at clinics, over 78,000 pregnant women living with HIV have been cared for and at least 75% of these women have received some form of antiretrovirals to prevent their babies from being infected.
The national prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programme is still only reaching 49 percent of all HIV-positive pregnant women in Zimbabwe. (In developed countries that figure is close to 100 percent). The main difficulty faced here by HIV-positive pregnant women is access to PMTCT services.
UK aid from the Department for International Development is supporting the scaling up of PMTCT programmes, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. To find out more about how the UK government is tackling the spread of HIV and AIDS in developing countries, please visit: www.dfid.gov.uk/wad2010
Words and pictures supplied by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, which is partly funded by the UK Government.
Mexico, 2018: Yair Cruz holds his newborn daughter, Mia Gisele, in Instituto Nacional de Perinatología (INPer) Hospital in Mexico City. The first 1,000 days of children’s lives are the most significant for their growth and development. Fathers play a critical role in this process. A UNICEF and H&M Foundation initiative, Baby Talk for Dads, encourages fathers to interact more with their babies at an early age by using baby talk to stimulate learning and development.
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UNICEF strongly recommends six months of exclusive breastfeeding. In this hospital, women are helped by expert lactation specialist. They also receive information on reproductive health.
Pakistan, 2010: A child flies a kite at a camp for people affected by the floods in Sukkur, Sindh province. In Sindh, flood-displaced families continue to move to their areas of origin as waters recede and access improves. Of the 4,800 camps identified in the province in October, just 325 remain open, accommodating roughly 130,000 people.
14 January 2011
© UNICEF Pakistan/2010/Marta Ramoneda
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Pakistan, 2010: Catastrophic flash floods have scarred the lives of Tayyab, 4, and his family in unimaginable ways. His father, Mohammad Aslam, is a small farmer in the remote village of Sadra Sharif, located in north-western Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
In early August, as floodwaters receded in the village, Mr. Aslam went to the fields to assess the damage to his crops. “I saw this thing stuck in the crops and I brought it home out of curiosity,” he remembers. “Not even for a moment did it cross my mind that I was bringing destruction to my family.”
Mr. Aslam had mistakenly brought home an anti-personnel landmine. His son and daughter were badly wounded when the landmine exploded as they were playing with it. “I want to play, but it hurts,” says Tayyab, whose foot had to be amputated as a result of his injuries.
“He cries all the time. He has lost a lot of weight and has become aggressive,” says Tayyab’s mother, Naseem Bibi. “He is totally dependent and has to be carried everywhere.”
The receding waters have unearthed a lurking menace of unexploded ordnance and landmines in Pakistan. The floods carried the explosives into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from the mountains in neighbouring, conflict-stricken South Waziristan, one of the country’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
“Sixteen cases have been reported during the last two months in flood-affected areas,” says UNICEF Child Protection Officer Farman Ali. “Seven victims, including women and children, have been injured leading to amputation.”
In response to the danger, UNICEF and its non-governmental partner, the Sustainable Peace and Development Organization, have expanded their mine-risk education (MRE) programme to flood-affected areas.
For more of Tayyab’s story, click www.unicef.org/infobycountry/pakistan_56777.html
by Shandana Aurangzeb Durrani, UNICEF Communication Officer
© UNICEF Pakistan/2010/Shandana Aurangzeb
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Pakistan, 2010: A child leans on a shovel while reconstruction work goes on in her village of Charsadda district, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. The Pakistan floods emergency keeps changing and evolving, so UNICEF has had to be quick and flexible in its approach in helping children. Families continue to return to find their communities in ruin, and try to rebuild their lives in the midst of a cold winter.
21 December 2010
© UNICEF Pakistan/2010/Marta Ramoneda
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Pakistan, 2010: Children attend a Child Friendly Space in the village of Pastiprahamn, Muzaffargarh district, which was washed away by the floods. Families in Muzaffargarh have now started rebuilding their homes. More than four months after the worst floods in the country’s history, UNICEF warns that winter will worsen the threats against Pakistani children who already suffer high rates of acute respiratory infections and malnutrition.
8 December 2010
© UNICEF Pakistan/2010/Marta Ramoneda
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Pakistan, 2010: A flood-stricken Pakistani family carries belongings retrieved from their home that was collapsed by heavy monsoon rains in Khwas Koorona village, Union council Pir Sabaq of Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
© UNICEF Pakistan/2010/Asad Zaidi
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Rekha Rewat is an accredited social health activist (ASHA) in Madhya Pradesh, India. She is encouraging expectant mothers in rural areas to opt for safer births at health centres using a UK-supported ambulance service called the Janani Express.
The Janani Express and related maternity services are part of the Madhya Pradesh Health Sector Reform programme. UK aid to India is focussed on the poorest people in three low income states - Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Orissa - reinforcing the deep, productive partnerships we have built over the last decade.
For more information on our work in India, please visit www.dfid.gov.uk/Where-we-work/Asia-South/India/
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Pakistan, 2010: A baby is screened for malnutrition at a UNICEF-supported Basic Health Unit near a camp for people affectd by the floods in Nowshera district, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Pakistan has been struggling with malnutrition even before the floods. In the last few weeks, an assessment at the Fiza camp in Northern Sindh revealed that of the 428 children screened, 38 had Severe Acute Malnutrition and 48 had Moderate Acute Malnutrition. UNICEF is now supporting an intervention to respond.
29 December 2010
©UNICEF Pakistan/2010/Marta Ramoneda
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By 2020, if an additional 120 million women who want contraceptives could get them, this would mean 200,000 fewer women and girls dying in pregnancy and childbirth - that's saving a woman’s life every 20 minutes. Access to contraceptives would mean nearly 3 million fewer babies dying in their first year of life.
On 11 July 2012 the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will host a groundbreaking summit to cut in half the current number of women and girls in the world’s poorest countries without access to contraception, but who wish to avoid pregnancy or space their children.
Background
On 11 July 2012 the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will host a groundbreaking summit to cut in half the current number of women and girls in the world’s poorest countries without access to contraception, but who wish to avoid pregnancy or space their children.
Every woman and girl deserves the opportunity to to determine her own future. Contraceptives give the world's poorest women the power to decide if and when to have another child.
Find out more at www.dfid.gov.uk/changinglives
To follow the London Summit on Family Planning visit www.dfid.gov.uk/fpsummit
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Over 16,000 HIV positive children in Zimbabwe are living normal healthy lives on anti-retroviral therapy (ART).
Tonderai (pictured) was born HIV positive and was one of the first children to be enrolled in the PMTCT program at the OI clinic in Murambinda Hospital. As soon as it became available, Tonderai was initiated on ART. Today he is a happy and lively young boy, doing well on treatment and attending school.
To find out more about how the UK government is tackling the spread of HIV and AIDS in developing countries, please visit: www.dfid.gov.uk/wad2010
Words and pictures supplied by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, which is partly funded by the UK Government.
Five-year-old Josphat plays with his dog.
Josphat was born HIV free thanks to the Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission (PMTCT) programme which his mother, Patience Mapfumo, enrolled in. Josphat was delivered at the waiting mothers’ shelter where nurses were able to administer necessary drugs to both him and his mother at the appropriate time.
To find out more about how the UK government is tackling the spread of HIV and AIDS in developing countries, please visit: www.dfid.gov.uk/wad2010
Words and pictures supplied by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, which is partly funded by the UK Government.
For mums-to-be like Musu, giving birth can be a matter of life and death.
She's gone into labour in one of the most dangerous places in the world to have a baby – Sierra Leone. Here, a shocking one in four deaths of women at child-bearing age happen during pregnancy and childbirth and tragically one in eleven babies are lost before their first birthday.
Background
UK aid is supporting British health workers to share their skills and help save the lives of thousands of mums and babies across Africa and Asia. Find out more at: www.dfid.gov.uk/mothers-day-2012
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Hadiza, lost her baby and nearly lost her life when after displaying clear signs of danger she was not taken to a hospital and instead gave birth at her parents' home.
Find out more about how the UK is helping mothers and babies in Nigeria and around the world at www.dfid.gov.uk/mothersday2011
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India: a nurse speaks with the mother of a newborn about breastfeeding in the Combined District Hospital in Uttar Pradesh, on 24 November 2020.
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Sister Kasiyamuhuru displays anti-retroviral (ARV) pills which are given to patients testing HIV positive.
A pregnant woman living with HIV can take inexpensive medicines to reduce the risk of passing her infection on to her infant during birth. The national PMTCT programme is now scaling up the use of combination ARVs commonly known as more efficacious regimens (MER).
To find out more about how the UK government is tackling the spread of HIV and AIDS in developing countries, please visit: www.dfid.gov.uk/wad2010
Words and pictures supplied by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, which is partly funded by the UK Government.
Community health worker Tamba Musa, 45 years old instructs Yei Gborie, 21 years old on correct breastfeeding techniques for her son Samuel, 3 months old in the village of Baadu,Tankoro chiefdom, Kono district, Sierra Leone on March 25, 2017. Yei has been living with her parents in their village since the birth of her child. Her husband was killed in a motorcycle accident 2 months before so she has moved back home. After the birth of Samuel, he was not crying or breastfeeding. Yei spent two weeks in the hospital with him. Tamba is 45 years-old and has been a health volunteer since 2008. He was initially a Community Based Distributor (CBD) and was trained as a CHW in 2011. He agreed to volunteer because he wanted to help keep children in his community healthy, save their lives and reduce under 5 deaths especially due to malaria. Tamba said he did some health related work during the war including treating bed nets with insecticide and also disinfecting homes in a camp for displaced people. He says there has been no maternal or under 5 mortality in his village after he became a CHW. Pregnant women are not allowed to deliver at home and are encouraged to go to the closest health facility which is about 2 miles from the village. Tamba is also a bursar in a secondary school in a town about 3 miles from his village. Yei Gborie says "When Samuel was taken to the hospital I was upset. I was concerned because he would not breastfeed and he was not crying. At the hospital they showed me how to breastfeed properly. Since I have returned to the village, Musa (CHW) talks to me about exclusive breast feeding and how it's better for Samuel. He also explains good hygiene practices before breastfeeding."
Pakistan, 2011: Nine-year-old Sadiqa carries building material in a bowl on her head, in her flood-damaged home in Waruki Kili Village of Tank District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province. Her house was reduced to rubble by the floods, and her school was also damaged. She, like many flood-affected other children across Pakistan, is now helping her family rebuild.
18 March 2011
© UNICEF Pakistan/2011/Shehzad Noorani
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Wilson Sauto, 38, a home based counsellor in Kamunhukamwe village, Nyanga.
Wilson says, "men want to be thought of as strong and virile. They think being HIV positive is weak and they won’t admit to being unwell. I know many HIV positive men. They come to me for advice but they still don’t want a test. So I assist. I explain it’s better now than later.
"The first step is acceptance. Then you can see a future and a life. Then you can plan your job, medical treatment, and physical health. And you can also make a plan with your partner. I have been HIV-positive for four years but my wife is HIV-free."
To find out more about how the UK government is tackling the spread of HIV and AIDS in developing countries, please visit: www.dfid.gov.uk/wad2010
Words and pictures supplied by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, which is partly funded by the UK Government.
Being born too small is one of the main reasons babies end up in the survival unit and can die.
With more than 40,000 newborn babies dying in their first month, getting the right nutrition before and after babies are born is crucial.
Mums can find out the latest advice including what best to feed their babies and young children from the health information wall in the heart of the village called 'Swasthya Kantha' and from their community health workers.
Background
Britain is working with the Government of Odisha, one of India's poorest states, and UNICEF to save the lives of thousands of mums and babies.
Find out more at www.dfid.gov.uk/changinglives
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