10 April 2018
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Out's pregnancy is assessed by a midwife during an antenatal home visit. © UNFPA/Ruth Carr
Rural midwives help save mothers in Lao People’s Democratic Republic
THAPANGTHONG, Lao People’s Democratic Republic – “Just lie still and relax. Breathe slowly,” midwife Khoun Keobouttavong told Out, 30. Out was laying on the floor of her small stilt house in the southern Thapangthong... Read more
13 July 2016
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Agnod counsels villagers on family planning. Efforts like Agnod's have helped the country lower its maternal death rate significantly. © UNFPA/Matthew Taylor
Maternal death rate plunges in Lao People's Democratic Republic
SAVANAKHET PROVINCE, Lao People's Democratic Republic – "The village was full of kids before,” said Agnod, 56, in a remote community in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. Nestled in a forest near the border with Viet... Read more
3 March 2015
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Laipong and Tongdam Kongwan receive family planning information and services from Bounthone Kongphongma, a community health volunteer, in the remote village of Lao Luang. © UNFPA/Micka Perier
Going the last mile to provide family planning in Lao People's Democratic Republic
VIENTIANE, Lao People's Democratic Republic – “If only my wife and I knew early enough about family planning and could access services, we would have had four children – not 14, as we did,” said Bounthone Kongphongma,... Read more
30 October 2013
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Teenage Pregnancy is Way of Life in Remote Laotian Villages
SAVANNAKHET, Lao People’s Democratic Republic — Kids grow up fast in some remote villages in southern Laos. With limited options to attend school, many opt to marry at age 14 or 15, or even younger, and start having... Read more
18 January 2013
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A Multi-pronged Approach to Maternal Health in Lao PDR is Getting Results
SEPON HOSPITAL, Lao PDR — Twenty-five-year-old Xanya had twirled herself around her husband for comfort in the family tak-tak (an open-air cart attached to a motor by a long set of handlebars) along the 12 kilometres of... Read more
21 June 2011
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New Cadre of Laotian Midwives Saving Lives
XIENG KHOUANG, Lao People’s Democratic Republic — Pregnant again after suffering a stillbirth and a miscarriage at home, Ta Sivilay is comforted to know help is now available nearby. “I lost two babies. It was very sad... Read more
16 April 2009
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In Visit to Lao PDR, Secretary-General Notes Country Progress and the Needs of Youth
VIENTIANE, Lao PDR - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the Lao People’s Democratic Republic earlier this week, marking the first visit of a Secretary-General to the country in nearly 25 years. Mr. Ban... Read more
2 May 2005
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Laotian Youth Teach Peers to Protect Their Reproductive Health
PHONTONG, Saravan Province, Lao People’s Democratic Republic—A visiting health education team has set up a stage and loudspeakers, and the whole village has come to watch. A dozen adolescents are sitting up front. They... Read more
31 March 2005
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Mobile Reproductive Health Clinics Make Motherhood Safer in Remote Lao Villages
SONG KLONG, Saravan Province, Lao People’s Democratic Republic—A medical officer from a travelling health team sits at a table outside a hut in this remote village and examines Ny Sirimatham and her infant son. He talks... Read more
5 January 2009
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New Plan to Save Women's Lives in Laos
PAKSE, Lao PDR—Khanthava is sitting on the well-made hospital bed with a drip in her arm, waiting for her labour to begin at the regional hospital here in southern Lao PDR. Her water broke five hours ago. But because... Read more