Sentences with phrase «women in developing countries who»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 couWomen Empowerment, Chief Akukalia Angela, assured the people that the present administration was passionate about developing women and reducing hunger in the couwomen 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.

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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.