Maternal Health
Bangladesh: The poorer the mother, the less likely she has access to skilled delivery support
Most of the complications from which women die are preventable. Access to maternal care and skilled birth attendants is believed to be of utmost importance in reducing maternal mortality — yet almost half of all births in Bangladesh still take place at home without the help of skilled birth attendants.
Read MoreCARE Bangladesh drives social behavioral change in access to antenatal care
Since 2021, CARE Bangladesh has run multiple social behavioral change communication (SBCC) campaigns on Facebook and Instagram addressing health topics such as COVID-19, maternal health, and childhood immunization.
Read MoreUkraine: ‘Every day on the road I was scared the baby would come’
Alone in a dark room. Air alarms and explosions outside. This is the story of 36-year-old Tatiana Yevhenivina, who gave birth to her ninth child while fleeing the war in Ukraine. Just as approximately 80,000 other women who gave birth there in the first three month since the escalation of war, Tatiana was not able to receive maternal health care or deliver her baby safe from fighting.
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CARE is there delivering lifesaving aid and defending the lives of families in crisis.
CARE provides lifesaving mobile healthcare to vulnerable Afghans
“I am eight months pregnant, but this is the first time I'm seeing a doctor,” says Belqees*, 28, at a CARE mobile health clinic in Balkh province, northern Afghanistan. Like many women, Belqees either lives too far from a public hospital or cannot afford the transportation costs, and the cost of attending a private clinic puts that option out of reach
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