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Defining a new challenge for health and systems: perinatal health in Pakistan -- Perinatal care in Sri Lanka: secrets of success in a developing country -- The present status of perinatal and neonatal care in Nepal -- Neonatal health situation in Bangladesh -- Epidemiology of maternal and foetal malnutrition in South Asia -- Maternal nutrition in South Asia: an overview from the rights' perspective -- Maternal behaviour and empowerment: a model of household determinants of childhood malnutrition in two low-income communities in Pakistan -- Morbidity and mortality: consequences of low birth weight -- Status of birth asphyxia in Bangladesh -- The spectrum of birth asphyxia in Nepal and preventative management strategies -- The national movement for neonatal resuscitation -- Neonatal intensive care strategies following birth asphyxia -- Early nasal continuous positive airway pressure: the Scandinavian mode of treating very low birth weight infants -- Long-term outcome of perinatal-neonatal interventions -- Nutrition interventions during pregnancy: global experience -- Neonatal infections in South Asia.