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India’s Investment in Midwives: A Step in the Right Direction to Achieving Universal Health Coverage

Indian mother and baby

India’s decision 30 years ago to incentivize women to give birth at a health facility helped drive a dramatic decrease in the country’s maternal mortality rate—a 77 percent decline from 1990 to 2015. The initiative, known as Janani Suraksha Yojana, brought millions of women to health care institutions to deliver safely with skilled health care providers. But over time, the influx of so many mothers at facilities stressed the health system. The quality

A Pandemic Delivery in Central Kenya: It’s Less Complicated Now

Waiting at Waita Joyce Makasi was in the midst of a perfect storm of pregnancy and pandemic. She was in labor, growing weak, and in need of a cesarean delivery. Daunting and dangerous as that situation might be in normal times for any woman living in in central Kenya’s Kitui Province, Joyce’s predicament was further

Meet Dr. T — An Advocate for Aligning Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health

In between tweeting with teens, seeing patients at her Johannesburg clinic and carrying out her mandate as Special Rapporteur on the right to health as appointed by the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng wrote a book—Dr. T: A Guide to Sexual Health & Pleasure—that one grateful reader