Women in Burkina Faso are seeking comprehensive health services to safely plan their families. To meet this need, Burkina Faso is updating and strengthening the skills of health care providers, so they can offer a range of contraceptives to women immediately after childbirth.
“If there is no quality what is our work then!” states Ms. Subha Jha, RMNCH+A Counselor at the Sherghati Sub-Divisional Hospital (SDH), a facility that has vowed to put quality at the forefront in the provision of family planning services.
Chinyere Francis loved working on her farm in the rural town of Ikwo in southeast Nigeria. But she worried that neither her earnings nor her husband’s $15 monthly income as a pastor in his local church were enough to take care of their growing family. With the latest addition—their tenth child—the couple appeared exhausted at the prospect of yet another mouth to feed.
Every day 800 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Helena’s story shows us it doesn’t have to be this way.
