Healthy Lives, Healthy Futures

Listen to the voices of women on the frontline of the fight to make preganancy and childbirth safer for women around the world. These leaders in reproductive health share their views on why countries should invest in family planning and reproductive health programs for the health and well-being of women, families and communities. Sadly, one woman dies needlessly in pregnancy or childbirth every minute of every day, and six million more suffer injury, illness or disability. But investments in reproductive health programs have saved lives and delivered real results. In Mexico, the infant mortality rate fell by 70% between 1970 and 2005, as the use of modern contraceptives nearly doubled. Similar results have been seen in Bangladesh, Egypt, Thailand, and elsewhere.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Reproductive health
• family planning
• safe motherhood
• Malawi
• Pakistan
• India
• Kenya
• Nigeria
• Tanzania