The News Review:
- Senators back national child health plan
- Update benefits and assure care for the jobless
- 40 pc child marriages in India: UNICEF
- UNICEF grants $5 mln to Zimbabwe health sector
- The sex talk and other touchy topics for mom
- China treats toddler for bird flu
Senators back national child health plan
Bizjournals.com NC
us Digg This Colorado Senators Friday approved a resolution asking Congress to reauthorize a program that helps states provide health insurance to needy children. Last year President George W. Bush vetoed legislation to expand SCHIP citing concerns that it sets the stage for socialized medicine. But on Wednesday the U.
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Update benefits and assure care for the jobless
Kansas City Star M
Cash benefits require updating ASAP. ne study of SCHIP and Medicaid found that determining eligibility costs up to $280 a child. That does not take account of the costs of re-qualifying every 13 weeks.
40 pc child marriages in India: UNICEF
Hindu India
child marriages in India: UNICEF Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Forty per cent of the world’s child marriages take place in India resulting in a vicious cycle of gender discrimination illiteracy and high infant and maternal mortality rates. According to the UNICEF’s latest “State of the World’s Children-2009” report discrimination on the basis of gender has a direct impact on maternal health. It can deny girls and women access to education prevent them from receiving or seeking adequate health care and bar them from making critical decisions that can affect their health and that of the newborn. Saving the lives of mothers and their newborns require more than just medical intervention. To be truly effective these interventions must exist within an environment supportive of women’s rights. This the report suggests requires respect for the rights of women and children quality education a decent standard of living protection from abuse exploitation discrimination and violence and empowerment of women.
UNICEF grants $5 mln to Zimbabwe health sector
Xinhua China
18 (Xinhua) — The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has showed its commitment in improving Zimbabwe’s health delivery system by making available 5 million U. dollars for the health sector at a time the country is battling cholera The Sunday Mail reported. UNICEF Executive Director Ms Ann Veneman on Saturday told journalists that the grant is a stop-gap measure and part of a larger initiative to provide incentives for health care workers to keep them in their jobs. She said the grant was directed to the health system because of the emergency situation which called for life-saving interventions.
The sex talk and other touchy topics for mom
Detroit Free Press United States
95) may be able to help. The book subtitled “A Girl’s Guide for You and Your Mom about Health Sex or Whatever” has information about everything from body image and routine health care to menstruation and STDs. It features illustrations question-and-answer sections and sample conversations. The book’s two authors have a passion for helping girls grow into strong women. Mary Jo Rapini is a mom of two daughters and an intimacy and sex therapist as well as a public speaker.
China treats toddler for bird flu
BBC News UK
The girl was discovered ill on 7 January in the central province of Hunan and taken to a hospital in her home province Chinese state media say. Health officials did not say how the child had become infected. A woman infected with bird flu died in Beijing earlier after buying ducks at a market in Hebei province. China’s health ministry said that the girl had been transferred to another hospital after her symptoms grew worse. All people who have had close contact with her are under “strict medical observation” it said adding that no abnormal symptoms had yet been found. China has the world’s biggest poultry population and is seen as critical in the fight to contain H5N1 which resurfaced in Asia in 2003 killing at least 247 people.
