Sentences with phrase «women in the developing world who»

His foundation works to provide care to women in the developing world who suffer from obstetric fistulas, a childbirth injury caused by prolonged labor, according to their website.

Not exact matches

And it is growing in the developing world, far from the celebrity - obsessed American culture, through the faithful work of both men and women who are committed to yielding to this Spirit of grace.

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.

International AIDS Society and 15 other leading organizations, including WHO, UNICEF and UNAIDS, Consensus Statement, «Asking the Right questions: Advancing an HIV Research Agenda for Women and Children», dated 8 March, 2010 International Breastfeeding Journal, Thematic issue on HIV and infant feeding: Lessons learnt and ways ahead, reports from sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa, Uganda, Malawi and Ethiopia, edited by Dr Karen Marie Moland and Dr Astrid Blystad, Collection published: 26 October 2010 Kuhn L, Reitz C and Abrams EJ, Breastfeeding and AIDS in the developing world.

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)

This particular meta - study reported that breastfeeding provides up to a 28 % decrease in risk of developing breast cancer at any age (pre - or post-menopausal) for women without a family history of the disease, who breastfed for 12 months or longer (World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research, 2007).

Certainly not Andrew Mitchell, the International Development Secretary, who made the improvement of «sexual and reproductive health rights, including access to modern family planning methods and promoting women's choice, in the developing world» one of the government's «top priorities».

For instance, children of women who were starving during pregnancy in the second world war grew up with an increased risk of developing cancer and diabetes.

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.

A study conducted by the World Health Organization found that women who carry the human papilloma virus (HPV) and who have taken the Pill for five to nine years are nearly three times more likely than non-Pill users to develop cervical cancer.7 (HPV affects a third of all women in their twenties.)

First: In writer / director Nicolas Boukhrief's «The Confession,» which is based on Béatrix Beck's 1952 novel «Léon Morin, prêtre,» Marine Vacth plays a fiery, fiercely free - thinking woman who develops an unconventional friendship with a charming priest (Romain Duris) in a small French town during World War IIn writer / director Nicolas Boukhrief's «The Confession,» which is based on Béatrix Beck's 1952 novel «Léon Morin, prêtre,» Marine Vacth plays a fiery, fiercely free - thinking woman who develops an unconventional friendship with a charming priest (Romain Duris) in a small French town during World War Iin a small French town during World War II.

The art world has recently developed a taste for older women, particularly the forgotten ones who slaved away for decades in an obscurity they did not deserve.

Often, it is women — especially those who are struggling economically — who are most vulnerable to natural disasters stemming from the extremes of climate change, whether they are in the developing world or in New Orleans, USA.