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Family Planning & Reproductive Health

Why Focus on Reproductive Health? Family planning is a right. It also saves lives and gives individuals the time, health and energy to care for their families, stay in school, get a job or start a business. Yet millions of people still lack access to modern contraception and reproductive health care. We work tirelessly to

Dying to Give Birth

For almost seven years in the 1980s, I lived on Mali’s Dogon Plateau. I was a Peace Corps volunteer focused on primary health care and spent most of my time with women. I learned about their joys, sorrows, dreams, struggles and, surprisingly, their great fear of childbirth.