UNICEF believes that providing universal health care can help save more newborns and is calling for immediate investment in midwives and other health workers who are equipped with the write medicines and equipment to ensure all mothers and babies are cared for safely.
Senior health leaders representing doctors and nurses in Northern Ireland have issued a statement outlining serious concerns about the unacceptable situation in the health and social care system and are calling on politicians to get the devolved institutions up and running again.
An Australian bill to change the current system of medical transfers would risk the health of refugees and asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea and Nauru, Human Rights Watch says.
Prisons need to promote personal growth as an end in itself, not just a means to reduced reoffending, according to a new report published by the Prison Reform Trust.
UN human rights experts have urged Australia to immediately provide appropriate health care to more than 800 asylum seekers and other migrants who have been held in the country’s offshore facilities for the past five years without durable solutions.
The areas of the UK with the highest prevalence of maternal mental illness coincide with areas with the highest levels of deprivation and adult mental illness in general, as shown by previous research.
The British Medical Association has welcomed the independent review of gross negligence manslaughter and culpable homicide, commissioned by the General Medical Council.