Topic: Sexual, Reproductive and Maternal Health

CARE is working in Bihar, India under the Integrated Family Health Initiative (IFHI) to improve Maternal and Newborn Healthcare practices, including the quality of care.

NAIROBI, KENYA (August 18, 2011) – CARE International, a leading humanitarian organization, urges donors to increase assistance for pregnant women and lactating mothers in the drought-stricken Horn of Africa. Of the more than 12 million people currently needing humanitarian assistance in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti, an estimated 360,000 women are pregnant.

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (September 17, 2010) – Today the humanitarian organization CARE announced that it will invest US$1.8 billion to expand its maternal, newborn and child health programs in the next five years.

They were sitting on wooden chairs beneath two large mango trees next to a little banana plantation: a group of 35 women and 10 men

Yasodha Ojha, an auxiliary nurse mid-wife (ANM), works in Mauwanagardaha health post in Doti district since past several years. She is known in the area for being kind and helpful. In this course that she met a fifth time pregnant,

On the dry and dusty floor of the Ethiopian Rift Valley, the reality of discrimation is starkly apparent. For girls here, it begins at birth. When a boy is born, there is clapping, shouting and singing, and celebratory shots are fired in the air.