Mother and Child Health

Banking on the Milk of Human Kindness

By Neeta Lal
The recent launch of Amaara, New Delhi's first human milk bank, has been greeted with much cheering. The initiative endorses the long-term goal of reducing infant mortality and addresses the critical issue of lack of mothers' milk for physically fragile newborns in India's capital city.

Zambia Makes Progress in the Prevention of HIV Transmission From Mother to Child

By Chisha Mutale
Chisha Mutale reports from Lusaka that substantial progress has been made against the transmission of HIV from mother to child by the the Zambian government and its cooperating partners.


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