contraception among married women. However, the neonatal mortality and teenage pregnancy rates have stagnated, and the low civil … Uganda with funding from Sweden and the World Bank. These studies underscore important lessons learned and offer suggestions …

Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, notes that we stand at a critical threshold for global health and … development. Too many women and children are still dying because they lack access to quality health care, especially in the least … extremely effective in getting high quality, essential health services to women and children. He remarks that empowering …

for the pursuit of policies that encourage adequate use of prenatal care by expectant mothers such as ensuring … mothers have to cover when seeking prenatal care services, intensifying education of females as a way of empowering them to be …