Sentences with phrase «poor women access»

Too bad if more people vote FOR those who support giving poor women access to health care than vote as you do.
They advocate total decriminalisation, on the basis that selling sex can empower women, and that prostitution gives poorer women access to a «market» they'd otherwise miss out on.

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The new measure is aimed at giving poor women in particular access to reproductive health services.
It estimates that some 6 million women in the Philippines — including 2 million who are poor — don't currently have access to birth control.
Planned Parenthood give access to birth control to poor women.
Given the history of medical experimentation and the lack of access to medical resources for certain groups of people, we must be especially concerned that women, racial and ethnic minorities, prisoners, and the poor are not exploited as a result of this research or of human cloning itself.
Women died in childbirth not from lack of technology, but from poor nutrition, lack of access to emergency services, and no antibiotics.
The face of neonatal death in the US is the face of young, poor Black women who have trouble accessing health care.
A poor women without a job, without money for a bus fare, without clothes for a job interview, without the possibility of obtaining childcare, without a steady roof over her head, without access to sterilising equipment or even the ability to readily boil water, can still (in the majority of cases) breastfeed her child.
But when poor women, without access to first - rate child care, choose to stay home with their babies, we tend to call them lazy welfare mothers.
Rural women have poor access to health care.
Although affluent and urban women began having their babies in hospitals, however, medically underserved populations, such as rural women with limited access to hospitals and poor women who couldn't afford to give birth in the hospitals, continued to give birth at home.
If you look at what women are actually dying from during childbirth in the US, it's all chronic medical conditions that were exacerbated by the stresses of pregnancy and childbirth, often because the dead mothers are black and / or poor and didn't have access to primary healthcare before becoming pregnant.
Campaigners including the British Humanist Association (BHA) have argued that this restriction is a violation of Northern Irish women's rights, and places additional undue barriers on their access to legal sexual and reproductive services and with costs on average at # 900, has a disproportionate effect on poorer women.
The LEAP programme is cash transfer being implemented by the Department of Social Welfare under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MOGCSP), aimed at reducing poverty by increasing consumption and promoting access to services and opportunities among the extreme poor and vulnerable households, elderly persons 65 years and above without any support and severely disabled persons without any productive capacity and recently, the extremely poor pregnant women and children under 2 years old.
Rich women will always be able to access abortion, while poor or undocumented migrant women will continue to be forced either to continue unwanted or dangerous pregnancies, or risk prosecution for carrying out DIY abortions.
Instead, May has actively introduced policies that cause harm to women's rights and access to equality - from cuts that leave women poorer and more vulnerable, to presiding over the decimation of the support system that keeps women safe from male violence.
Poor prenatal care and barriers to accessing health care could be killing more women, too.
It is to raise the poorest nations out of poverty through democratic governance, free trade, access to birth control, and the education and economic empowerment of women.
Perhaps the harsher weather conditions in some areas of Russia, dramatic growth of smoking women in Russia, poorer health care, and limited access to quality skin care products and services due to poorer economy makes Russian women age faster in the face than western women.
1.4 by 2030 ensure that all men and women, particularly the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership, and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology, and financial services including microfinance
«Federal efforts to equalize child - care access have helped poor women and their children, although more remains to be done.
This also means expanding opportunities for high - quality education — from greater access to Advanced Placement courses to the expansion of high - quality charter schools — so that children from poor and minority households, especially young black men and women who did the worst on NAEP this year (and have less access to college - preparatory courses in traditional districts) can succeed in school and in life.
Specifically, the reality of lower earning - power across every level of education (a problem that by the way is also shared by all women in this society but particularly among women of color), the lack of assets from which one can draw upon in case of any type of disruption in earnings, and poor access to credible financial institutions within the neighborhoods where they live, make African Americans particularly vulnerable to falling behind, and staying behind, thus significantly hampering the possibility of establishing a positive credit history.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the British government today (World Population Day) have been hosting a London Summit on Family Planning, aimed at expanding access to contraception and related health services for women, particularly in poor urban communities, who want more control over the size of their families.
We believe that promoting the inclusion of women and the poorest people in society within efforts to achieve universal access to sustainable energy services, and related business opportunities, can help secure a just energy transition that leaves no one behind.
Each country brief conveys information allowing to better understand the key role of secure land tenure and access when dealing with natural disasters vulnerability of the poor, women and men.
Rural women have to overcome poverty, unemployment, gender discrimination, poor access to resources, illiteracy, and lack of empowerment on how to engage in leadership.
It highlights households do not act as one when making decisions, women tend to control fewer resources and to be more vulnerable to external shocks due to already - present vulnerability from unequal access to resources, lower levels of education, increased burden and poorer health.
Women in poor countries have the highest global incidence of poverty of any demographic group, along with the worst health conditions, the least access to education, and the highest likelihood of being victims of violence.
Patient 5: a stateless HIV - positive woman who had been a victim of human trafficking and who had abandoned her refugee claim due to poor legal advice did not have access even to Public Health and Public Safety IFH coverage after July 1, 2012.
The reports display considerable consensus on the root causes of violence against Indigenous women: poverty, poor housing, little access to and support for education, few employment opportunities, the legacy of the residential school system, colonialism and other discriminatory Canadian policies towards Indigenous peoples.
Healthcare access and the patterns of maternal health care utilization among poor and non-poor women living in urban areas in Portugal
A number of vignette studies suggest reproduction in women with unstable or poor access to resources is disapproved of or considered deviant behaviour [12,36].
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