Press Centre: Health
UNICEF Turkey Press Releases on Health:
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12 May 2009: Facts on Swine Flu
15 January 2009 (2): UNICEF’s State of the World’s Children 2009 Report Launched in Ankara
15 January 2009 (1): UNICEF: Extreme Risks for Pregnant Women and Newborn Babies in Developing Countries
04 December 2008: Global Measles Deaths Drop by 74%
01 December 2008: Early HIV testing and treatment can save newborn lives, new U.N. report released on World AIDS Day states
15 October 2008: In the fight to save children’s lives, washing hands takes centre stage.
19 September 2008: Report highlights risk of maternal mortality in developing world.
12 September 2008: Releasing declining numbers for child mortality, UNICEF calls for increased efforts to save children’s lives.
04 June 2008: A campaign has been launched in Turkey to eliminate the negative consequences of insufficient iodine intake.
24 September 2007: New figures show solid progress on child survival, including a decline in the annual number of under–five deaths, according to UNICEF. Global child deaths have reached a record low of 9.7 million, down from almost 13 million in 1990.
22 January 2007: In the shadow of Mount Ararat, a father in eastern Turkey is trying to recover from the death of his 16-year-old daughter, Fatma. A year after Fatma died from avian influenza, Mehmet Emin Özcan is still dazed and refuses to believe the doctors who suggest that she became ill after handling an infected duck in the family’s kitchen.
17 November 2006: Dr. Nafis Sadik, one of three special envoys of the UN Secretary General for HIV/AIDS, visited Turkey on 14-15 November 2006.
9 November 2006: Fortifying flour with essential vitamins and minerals would greatly reduce maternal mortality, birth defects such as spina bifida, and protect the brain, blood and muscle tissue of children and women, said UNICEF, ahead of a meeting of the flour milling industry in İstanbul.
2 February 2006(1) Sumru Kutlu, a senior programme assistant from the UNICEF office, is trying to find out how much these women know about how to protect themselves and their families.
2 February 2006(2): Selami developed a slight cough and a temperature on January 6 this year while staying with his grandfather’s family in a village some 80 kilometres east of the city.
23 January 2006: The total number of human cases confirmed to have been infected by the H5N1 strain of avian influenza or ‘bird flu’ in Turkey remains unchanged at 21. Four people have died from infection to date -- all of them children.
14 July 2005: An amendment jointly introduced to the Salt Communiqué by the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Agriculture has banned direct marketing of non-iodised table salt to consumers.
27 April 2005: Having set a national target to achieve a high level of immunity in the population and eliminate measles by 2010, Turkey is intensifying its efforts and conducting a one-time ‘catch-up campaign’ targeting children aged between 9 months and 14 years.
14 July 2004: Turkey’s latest Demographic and Health Survey (TDHS) presents good news about the state of Mother and Child Health at the beginning of the 21st century.
18 December 2003: Seven million children have been reached in the ten days since the measles immunisation campaign was launched on December 8th.
9 December 2003: Iran and Turkey have launched the largest and most ambitious measles campaigns in the world, reaching a combined total of 53 million people over the next year.
7th March 2003: Every day, 1,400 girls and women die giving birth -- on Women’s Day, UNICEF says lack of progress is shameful
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