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Options to consider for question 2

  • The only way we will end poverty is to put women and mothers at the front and centre of all our efforts

    Andrew Mitchell
    UK Development Secretary

You might like to consider the following options:

  • Comprehensive family planning to enable women and men to make choices about their reproductive lives and delay, space and limit their family size
  • Safe abortion services and to make the consequences of unsafe abortion more widely known to ensure that abortion is safe, legal and rare
  • Antenatal care services
  • Skilled birth attendance (and/or institutional deliveries)
  • Emergency obstetric and newborn care
  • Post natal care services
  • Maternal nutrition interventions before and during pregnancy
  • Exclusive breastfeeding
  • Prevention and treatment of malaria for pregnant women
  • Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV before, at and after birth
  • HIV prevention with sexual and reproductive health services
  • Health system strengthening (including health workers, medication, contraceptives and other health commodities) to deliver quality services along the continuum of care
  • Specific sexual and reproductive health services for women who are survivors of violence or rape
  • Do you have any other ideas to share with us?
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