Maternal health key indicator to functioning health system-MoH

The Ministry of Health will be launching the Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal mortality in Africa (CARMMA) next month.

The launch, which will be held in Maun, will carry the theme 'Botswana cares: No woman should die while giving life.'
This campaign has been adopted to further strengthen the provision of quality health information and services in order to reduce high maternal and newborn deaths.

Assistant Representative of UNFPA Sarah Masale has indicated that the campaign was launched at a larger scale in June 2009 at the African Union (AU)'s Ministers of Health conference in Addis Ababa under the theme 'Africa cares: No woman should die while giving life.'

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Inspect the voters' roll!

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