Dec 8 2012
UNFPA and mobile phone company Nokia announced this week that the "company will donate the equivalent of 3,000 clean delivery kits to the fund," according to an UNFPA press release. "The kits, designed and distributed by UNFPA, help ensure safe delivery of babies in humanitarian settings," and are being provided as a result of the fund's social media campaign "Safe Birth. Even Here.," the press release states, adding, "The campaign, which reports on and tracks safe deliveries in refugee camps and emergencies around the globe, is active on Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest, and aims to raise awareness about maternal health and the challenges faced by expectant mothers in crisis settings" (12/4).
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 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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