Roselyne Sachiti
THE HERALD (Zimbabwe)
Opinion

....The Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey 2010-11, which was published a fortnight ago, confirms that 93 percent of Zimbabwean women and 91 percent of men do not have health insurance....

....With such shocking statistics, The Herald made several inquiries with some medical aid societies to find out what really deters people from seeking health insurance.....

Travis Lupik
INTER PRESS SERVICE (IPS)

....With regard to women's health, Liberia's five-year "Road Map", launched in March 2011, aims to "halve Liberia's high rate of maternal and newborn death" and calls for "increasing the number of skilled birth attendants at all levels of the health care system by 50 per cent." According to the country's 2007 Demographic and Health Survey, Liberia's maternal mortality rate is 994 deaths for every 100,000 live births – one of the highest in the world....

...."Malawi's maternal mortality rate is as high as 675 deaths per 100,000 (live births)," Banda noted. "As a woman president and a mother, I feel it is my obligation to stop the unnecessary deaths of women."....

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....

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....