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Study Tracking Progress In Maternal, Child Health Highlights Inequities In Intervention Coverage
According to a study published in the Lancet on Saturday, researchers from the University of Pelotas in Brazil tracking progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5 -- which promote maternal and child health -- "discovered that the most equitable intervention was early initiation of breast feeding, and that the attendance of a skilled person at birth proved to be the least equitable intervention," Medical News Today reports. "The findings furthermore revealed that community-based interventions were more equally distributed in comparison with those delivered in health facilities," MNT writes, noting that the "most inequitable countries of the evaluated interventions were Chad, Ethiopia, Laos, Nigeria, Niger and Somalia, followed by India, Madagascar and Pakistan, with the most equitable countries being Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan" (Rattue, 4/2).
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