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Marty Logan
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Nepal-based journalist reporting on health and human rights. Founder of @nepalnowpod.bsky.social‬. Substack—Changing Nepal. martylogan.info
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She did!
September 13, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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I'm very happy to see that the key step of naming a prime minister who will form a government has been taken in Nepal. There was a multitude of ways that this could have gone sideways in the last couple of days.
Sushila Karki is the country's 1st woman PM!
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Photo of a group of young people flanking Nepal's new prime minister, Sushila Karki. She is the country's first woman PM.
September 13, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Nepal's health community is making huge efforts to reach the Sustainable Development Goals for maternal & newborn deaths by 2030. But after decades of swift progress, improvement has slowed. Cuts in funding from the Nepal government and donors, including USAID, make it even tougher. bit.ly/3GGf2JI
Background photo - women and children sitting around a large poster, a tool for tracking information about the pregnant women and new mothers in their village.
July 15, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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The latest statistics on maternal and newborn health in Nepal shows surprising setbacks in some areas. The department of health suggests reasons for the decline but they seem to be a repeat of past years' diagnoses. bit.ly/MNHstats
Headline: Latest stats reveal mixed results on maternal and child health in Nepal. Subhead: Post-delivery visits rise but institutional delivery falls, says department of health Background photo: a standing woman holds a baby while looking at a meeting of female community health volunteers
June 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Sunrise in Bhairahawa, Nepal.
May 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM