KANUNGU, May 30, 2017 - Anna Katushabe’s daughter came into the world in early May by Caesarean-section delivery, and so both mother and daughter spent longer than expected in Rugyeyo Community Hospital....
Date: May 30, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
SHARISTAN DISTRICT, Daykundi Province – A father sits on a wooden chair and caresses his child, who is lying on a bed with his hand in a bandage. In a corner, a doctor checks the case papers of an elderly...
Date: May 22, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
In a little room on the Hatton tea plantation in Sri Lanka, fifty or so young people, most of them under 25, had a smartphone and shared a common purpose. They wanted to use WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook and...
Date: May 1, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
When Karuppiah Sellathurai bought his first cow, it only gave him a few liters of milk every day. But then he “multiplied” his cattle when his cow had a calf. Several years down the line, he has four animals...
Date: May 1, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
ABUJA, September 26, 2016 – Each of Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory has received $1.5 million apiece to improve maternal, child, and nutrition health services for women and children...
Date: September 23, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Lin, 22, holds her seven-week-old daughter firmly as she wraps a piece of cloth tightly around the baby’s body. She is waiting to meet a health worker about family planning at the Maternal Neonatal and...
Date: August 15, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, June 24, 2016—The World Bank today approved $150 million in additional financing to help strengthen Bangladesh’s health systems and improve health services, particularly for the poor. This...
Date: June 24, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, March 8, 2016 – “I was pregnant with my first son in the jungle,” whispers Francisca Kameula, a mother-of-four from the remote community of Rovo, in the mountainous central...
Date: March 7, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
ONDO STATE, November 5, 2015 – Ariyo Oluwatosin Raphael is one of several interns recently trained in the specifics of performance-based financing, an innovative mechanism to ensure results in primary...
Date: November 5, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
16,000 children under 5 years old die each day NEW YORK/GENEVA/WASHINGTON, 9 September 2015 – Child mortality rates have plummeted to less than half of what they were in 1990, according to a new...
Date: September 8, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Jakarta, May 21 2015 – In an effort to fight two major health issues – childhood stunting and women dying during childbirth -- Indonesia and the World Bank Group have agreed to seek immediate ways to reduce...
Date: May 21, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Sharper focus needed on neonatal mortality NEW YORK, 16 September 2014 – New data released today by the United Nations show that under-five mortality rates have dropped by 49 per cent between 1990 and...
Date: September 16, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
WASHINGTON, December 11, 2013 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved financing that will help deliver essential and often lifesaving health and nutrition services to thousands of...
Date: December 11, 2013
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Niger’s President: ‘Too Many Children Still Die, Too Many Mothers Die Giving Birth’ NIAMEY, Niger, November 6, 2013 – Responding to Niger’s “Call to Action” for improvements in women’s reproductive health...
Date: November 6, 2013
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Thank you, Mr. Secretary General, I couldn’t agree more with the Secretary General. We need to work together so that the people of the Sahel can have both peace and development. The partners he mentioned...
Date: November 1, 2013
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
WASHINGTON, September 18, 2013 – Improved health services and accessibility for poor pregnant women and children in Argentina led to a significant decrease in low birth weight and in-hospital deaths of...
Date: September 18, 2013
Type: Press Release
Language: English
NEW YORK/GENEVA, 13 September 2013 – In 2012, approximately 6.6 million children worldwide – 18,000 children per day – died before reaching their fifth birthday, according to a...
Date: September 13, 2013
Type: Press Release
Language: English
WASHINGTON, September 9, 2013 -- In the last two decades, the global health landscape has undergone rapid transformation. People around the world are living longer than ever before, and the population...
Date: September 9, 2013
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Nelson Mandela's great-granddaughter Zenani was killed in a car crash as she was returning home from a World Cup concert in Soweto in 2010. Her death, two days after her 13th birthday, drew global attention...
Date: May 5, 2013
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, April 15, 2013— Africa’s booming economic growth fuelled by a rigorous focus on government and citizen accountability will boost poverty reduction and promote shared prosperity, according to...
Date: April 15, 2013
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
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