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Nov 16, 2013
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Three years into Myanmar’s new existence as an open country, the scars from decades behind the bamboo wall continue to emerge, in areas such as prenatal care and childhood health, where attention and funding have been woefully inadequate.

A UN Children’s Fund report earlier this year said almost 10 percent of newborns in Myanmar had low birth weights, of…

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