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A newborn baby's inked feet are seen after his footprints were taken for the birth certificate, at the Santa Ana public maternity hospital, in Caracas, Venezuela, on October 19, 2011.

Birth Registration to Improve Health Equity

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Millions of newborns lack birth certificates, but governments and investors have new opportunities to build digital identification

Suang Sreang, 27, who is pregnant and due to give birth within days, waits to receive supplies at Wat Por Sovannaram refugee camp, in Ou Chrov district, Banteay Meanchey Province, Cambodia, on December 13, 2025.

Cost-Effective Reforms to Save Mothers' Lives in Cambodia

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An OB-GYN and health administrator recounts how practical, inexpensive strategies improved maternal care at his rural hospital

A Stillbirth Every 10 Seconds

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A new study estimates global stillbirths down to 20 weeks' gestation

A Stillbirth Every 10 Seconds

A Nightmare for Pregnant Women in Gaza

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An on-the-scene health worker explains how Gaza could lose a generation if pregnant women remain at risk

A Nightmare for Pregnant Women in Gaza

Empowering Native Mothers Through Midwifery

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A nurse-midwife from the Navajo Nation on why there's now enough data to advance Indigenous birthing policy

Empowering Native Mothers Through Midwifery

Revolutionizing Maternal Care in Colombia

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How the Hospital Padrino strategy is bringing care to underserved communities

Revolutionizing Maternal Care in Colombia

Preventable but Prevalent: An Injury Affecting Millions of Mothers

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Two solutions that could help women in low-and middle-income countries

Preventable but Prevalent: An Injury Affecting Millions of Mothers

Loretta Lynn and Beyond: Reproductive Rights in Country and Folk Music

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A slideshow of songs highlighting the once taboo topics of birth control, virginity, and divorce in rural America

Loretta Lynn and Beyond: Reproductive Rights in Country and Folk Music

Diabetes in Pregnancy Is On the Rise Among South Asian Women in the United States

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As the nation diversifies, why a "one-size-fits-all" approach won't work for treating gestational diabetes

Diabetes in Pregnancy Is On the Rise Among South Asian Women in the United States

How to Save the Lives of Women and Girls in Africa

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African governments must follow through on their lofty declarations and allocate national budgets to save women's lives

Women wait in line during a UNICEF supported mobile health clinic in the village of Rubkuai in Unity State, South Sudan on February 16, 2017. Picture shows five women in a line with more lined up on the other side of them. The three women in the middle are standing very close, and the third has her arms around the shoulders of the second, suggesting they all know each other. This photo is moving in its simple, straightforward humanity. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola

Healthy Birth—and Then What?

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Women in sub-Saharan Africa who give birth in health care facilities may not always receive high quality postpartum care

A woman holds her newborn in a nursery at the Juba Teaching Hospital in South Sudan on Apr 3, 2013, which had one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates then at 2,054 per 100,000 live births. Photo shows a woman looking adoringly on her baby, who rests in her lap. REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu

Human Development is the Best Contraceptive—Why India Does Not Need a Two-Child Norm

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Key to harnessing potential of India is enhancing capabilities of young people and expanding freedoms of girls and women

A mother kisses her child as she walks past graffiti in Mumbai on March 27, 2014. The image is striking with a large, artistic image behind a woman who is walking and holding a child. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui