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Eh Poh, a midwife who advises women on ante-natal health, says the clinic's role goes beyond delivering babies, to teaching women basic health care.

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Women with a possible miscarriage should never have to wait in an ante-natal environment and, once a miscarriage has been confirmed, there must be communication between professionals to prevent the upset caused by being chased for further appointments or nuchal scans.

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Last year, almost all women went for at least one ante-natal check-up and 63% of deliveries were attended by a skilled health worker.

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I remember when a midwife asked a group of about 10 mothers taking part in a post-natal course (probably even more useful than the ante-natal one I attended) for how long we intended to nurse our babies.

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The nurses proudly tell us that virtually all of the women who receive counseling (the first step in their ante-natal care) agree to take an HIV test.

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The 'Alex' clinic offers free primary health care along with HIV/AIDS counseling, testing, prevention and treatment to all women coming in for ante-natal care.

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Dr Viswanathan Mohan, Director, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu said that "there is an urgent need to establish diagnostic centres for diabetes at every ante-natal clinic (ANC) especially in rural areas to detect and reduce the burden of diabetes at an early stage in children and adolescents".

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And it is also aided by the old Egyptian (and Platonic) belief in pre-existence and by the Rabbinic and Buddhistic doctrine of ante-natal sin, to say nothing of metempsychosis.

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The decrease was based on the national health department's 2006 ante-natal survey, which suggested the epidemic was about to show a downward trend in the general population.

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At its Perinatal HIV Research unit, nearly twenty thousand women a year use its ante-natal care and delivery services.

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