The DHS Program

AGENCE DE PRESSE SÉNÉGALAISE

La mortalité infanto-juvénile est dans une tendance baissière au Sénégal car le risque de décès entre la naissance et le cinquième anniversaire est de 72 pour 1000 naissances, indique une nouvelle enquête de l'Agence nationale de la statistique et de la démographie (ANSD) rendue publique mercredi à Dakar...

ZAMBIA DAILY MAIL

....All these interventions emanated from the evidence from the Zambia Demographic and Health Survey, which shows that between 2002 and 2007 there was a more than 25 percent decline in under-five mortality rate, but the neonatal mortality rate has remained high, with 34 percent of the under- five deaths in Zambia occurring in this period....

National Public Radio (Morning Edition)
Interview with Mona Eltahawy

....You also quote a disturbing statistic from Egypt - in fact, a statistic that was so bad we doubted it and went and checked and found that it seems to be correct. According to Egyptian government studies, more than 90 percent of women in Egypt who have ever been married - that's who they studied - had gone through female genital mutilation....

Nurul Islam Hasib
BDNEWS24 (Bangladesh)

Bangladesh is moving towards better health as the preliminary results of the sixth demographic and health survey released on Tuesday show improvement on almost all health indicators, though some inequities still persist....

 THE HIMALAYAN (Nepal)

KATHMANDU: The Health Ministry is focusing on first 1000 days – 280 days in mother's womb and the succeeding 730 days following the birth of a child – to improve the status of malnutrition.

The initiative comes in the wake of findings of the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS)-2011 that showed a nominal change in malnutrition status.

Dr Shyam Raj Upreti, director of the Child Health Division (CHD) under the ministry, said the government was focusing on the nutrition programme of a mother and a child from the embryonic stage...