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Tips for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Mothers
The Importance of Breast Milk, Breast milk contains all the essential nutrients necessary for the proper growth and health of the baby. These nutrients are easily digestible and fully absorbed by the infant. Breast milk also contains sufficient water, so for the first six months, the baby receives both complete nu...
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National Breastfeeding Week
Every year from September 1 to 7, families, healthcare professionals, and communities in Turkmenistan celebrate Breastfeeding Week. In 2025, this celebration will align with the theme of World Breastfeeding Week, “Prioritize Breastfeeding: Create Sustainable Support Systems,” which emphasizes the need for sustaine...
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UNICEF and Ministry of Health Enhance Pediatric and Neonatal Emergency Care in Turkmenistan
Ashgabat, 11 November 2024, — 38 health professionals from Ashgabat and all five velayats have stronger neonatal and pediatric emergency care skills from attending the intensive training sessions organized by UNICEF in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry. The training was facilitated by in...
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UNICEF Strengthens Healthcare Services in Turkmenistan with New Oxygen Plants
Ashgabat, 4 September 2024, — UNICEF, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan, has successfully installed two new oxygen plants at the Scientific and Clinical Centre for Maternal and Child Health in Ashgabat and the Mother and Child Health Hospital in Dashoguz, an area aff...
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Vaccinations and COVID-19: What parents need to know
The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has brought with it fear and uncertainty. Many parents are asking about when there will be a COVID-19 vaccine and what to do about routine childhood vaccinations during the pandemic. We're here to provide answers to your most common questions. When will the vacci...
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Navigating pregnancy during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
Pregnancy is a special time full of excitement and anticipation. But for expectant mothers facing the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), fear, anxiety and uncertainty are clouding this otherwise happy time. To learn more about how women can protect themselves and their little one, we spoke with Franka...
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Turkmenistan will develop an action plan to implement the early childhood development strategy
UNICEF is providing expertise to the Government of Turkmenistan in developing its action plan and monitoring and evaluation framework to implement the National Strategy on Early Childhood Development (ECD) for 2020-2025. The first steps in developing an action plan have been discussed last week at the online consu...
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9 million children could die in a decade unless world acts on pneumonia, leading agencies warn
Boosting efforts to fight pneumonia could avert nearly 9 million child deaths from pneumonia and other major diseases, a new analysis has found ahead of the first ever global forum on childhood pneumonia in Barcelona (January 29-31). According to a modelling by Johns Hopkins University, scaling up pneumonia treatm...
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New Year’s Babies: Over 361 children will be born in Turkmenistan on New Year’s Day - UNICEF
An estimated 361 babies will be born in Turkmenistan on New Year’s Day, UNICEF said today. Turkmenistan’s babies will account for 0.09 per cent of the estimated 392,078 babies to be born on New Year’s Day {1}. “The beginning of a new year and a new decade is an opportunity to reflect on our hopes and aspirations n...
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Alemsoltan’s life: A success story
Alemsoltan was born on 28 November 2016 after only 25 weeks of gestation. She weighed just 500 grams. After three months in one of the 12 state-of-the-art incubators at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in the MCH Hospital in Ashgabat, she now weights 1.48 kilograms. Alemsoltan’s mother had miscarriages twice prior...