A breath test performed in a doctor's office could also have great appeal for the many
women in developed countries who shun screening mammograms because of the discomfort and inconvenience.
There are more than 220 million
women in developing countries who don't want to get pregnant, but who lack access to family planning information and contraceptives.
In a way, that comes back to finding someone meeting a need —
women in developing countries who want to work to provide for their families — and walking beside them.
According to the United Nations Population Funds statement to mark the global event, close to 214 million
women in developing countries who want to avoid pregnancy are not using safe and effective family planning methods either because they lack access to information, or because they can't get support from their partners or communities.
Not exact matches
In developing countries, education and contraceptives can help the 120 million
women of childbearing age
who want safe, healthy timing and spacing of their pregnancies — and reduce the risk of maternal and infant death.
The World Health Organization and Unicef estimated the average maternal mortality ratios for 1990 as 27 per 100 000 live births
in the more
developed countries compared with 480 per 100 000 live births
in less
developed countries, with ratios as high as 1000 per 100 000 live births for eastern and western Africa.4 The
WHO has estimated that almost 15 % of all
women develop complications serious enough to require rapid and skilled intervention if they are to survive without lifelong disabilities.5 This means that
women need access not only to trained midwives but also to medical services if complications arise.
The World Health Organization recommends the following (* side note this is not just a recommendation for those
who are
in developing countries but for
women worldwide)
After standardizing the data for age, menopausal status, and economic standing of her
country (so that these factors did not influence the results), this study concluded that a
woman who breastfed for 12 months
in her life reduced her risk of
developing breast cancer by 4.3 %.
Women who are HIV - positive or have AIDS
in developed countries risk transmitting the virus to their baby through direct breastfeeding.
It is very easy for health services, even
in developed countries without an emergency, to put up barriers to breastfeeding for
women who need medical assistance.
Whilst
in developing countries, it is rare to know of
women who have died as a result pregnancy,
in Africa this is the norm.
Alhassan,
who was represented on the occasion by the Coordinator for
Women Empowerment, Chief Akukalia Angela, assured the people that the present administration was passionate about developing women and reducing hunger in the cou
Women Empowerment, Chief Akukalia Angela, assured the people that the present administration was passionate about
developing women and reducing hunger in the cou
women and reducing hunger
in the
country.
Poor
women in India
who rent their wombs out to rich families from
developed countries are one manifestation; egg and sperm donors another.
«We're different to traditional non-profits that have long cycles of grants and projects, and feedback that happens over years rather than days or weeks,» says Shivani Garg Patel, co-founder of Samahope, which raises funds to support individual doctors
in developing countries, especially those
who are treating
women and children.
The
WHO study, one of a collection of articles
in a special issue of the journal devoted to
women's health beyond reproduction, found that the leading causes of death of
women aged 50 years and older worldwide are cardiovascular disease (heart disease and stroke) and cancers, but that
in developing countries these deaths occur at earlier ages than
in the rich world.
With the advent of online dating, most Russian
women are looking for a well settled foreign man
who can fulfill their dreams of settling
in a
developed country.
In general, these dating services deal with women in less developed, less prosperous countries, who want to meet men in more developed, more prosperous countrie
In general, these dating services deal with
women in less developed, less prosperous countries, who want to meet men in more developed, more prosperous countrie
in less
developed, less prosperous
countries,
who want to meet men
in more developed, more prosperous countrie
in more
developed, more prosperous
countries.
Our story on the punishment of a
woman in Sudan
who dared wear pants brings to mind a theme that has percolated on Dot Earth for a while: the relationship among the conditions facing
women (and girls)
in developing countries, progress toward prospering, stable populations and,
in the end, societal and environmental stability.
Indoor air pollution
in developing countries kills more than 3.5 million a year, almost all are
women who cook the food over fires.
These attacks hurt marginalized communities domestically and abroad — people of color, those
who live
in rural areas, those struggling to make ends meet
in the U.S. and
women and girls living
in poverty
in developing countries — the most.