Guyana:“Reducing Unplanned Pregnancies Among Adolescent Mothers”
Adolescent mothers as a group face challenges arising from the stage of adolescent development as well as pregnancy and motherhood. They live in worlds which hold different and sometimes conflicting expectations of them. They are required to balance the results of changes in their lives, often without guidance and support, to make the transition from adolescent to mother. moreHappy Mother's Day
Today as we celebrate Mother's Day let us continue to work to help those mothers in need. Every day, almost 800 women die in pregnancy or childbirth. Every two minutes, the loss of a mother shatters a family and threatens the well-being of surviving children. Evidence shows that infants whose mothers die are more likely to die before reaching their second birthday than infants whose mothers survive. And for every woman who dies, 20 or more experience serious complications. moreInternational Day of the Midwife
Skilled midwives, with the equipment and support they need, can spell the difference between life and death for close to 300,000 women each year, and ten times that many infants. moreSetting the Agenda beyond 2015
Between now and 2015 a new development framework is being established to replace the Millennium Development Goals, the blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and leading development institutions to meet the needs of the world’s poorest.
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