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Bridging Gaps in Women's Health: Niger State's Push for Better Access to Family Planning

Abujah Racheal

October 07, 2025 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Niger

The Niger State Health Care Fund offers a voucher program that helps cover the cost of antenatal care and family planning services for women in rural areas and IDP camps. The voucher scheme, alongside community engagement programs and technological resources, has improved access to contraceptives and reproductive health services, but the state’s rate of contraceptive prevalence is still below the national average.

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Family Planning Strengthens Agency for Women, Youth in Zimbabwe

Audrey Galawu

October 07, 2025 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council focuses on improving maternal health outcomes by providing reproductive health and family planning resources, including contraception and educational counseling, at clinics, local health facilities, and community organizations. Since 2010, the country’s maternal mortality rate has fallen and the rate of married women using modern contraceptives has reached 69%.

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Family Planning Expands Women's Choices in Zimbabwe

Audrey Galawu

October 05, 2025 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council implemented a comprehensive national family planning program that offers integrated reproductive health services delivered through multiple channels including local clinics, mobile outreach units, community health workers, and youth-friendly centers. The program provides access to contraceptives, counseling, and peer education to address maternal mortality and unplanned pregnancy rates. Over the past decade, maternal mortality has dropped by 78%, and unintended pregnancies have also significantly decreased.

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What if diapers were free for the parents who need them most?

Chabeli Carrazana

September 18, 2025 |

The 19th |

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Response Location: United States, Illinois

Diaper Dollars provides parents in Illinois and Ohio with a $40 e-card each month that they can use at major retailers like Walmart and CVS to purchase diapers. Nearly 8,000 people have been served so far, with 10,000 projected by 2026. About 90 percent of those who went through the program reported being able to better afford other essentials like food, rent and other bills with a portion of their diaper costs covered.

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Local Volunteers Lead the Way in Closing Taraba's Maternal Healthcare Gap

Yahuza Bawage

July 15, 2025 |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Sardauna, Taraba State

Women volunteers with PHC Kara are going into the community to share important healthcare information with pregnant women, in an effort to improve maternal and infant mortality rates and health outcomes. The group has also received support and recognition from UNICEF’S Mama2Mama healthcare initiative and Rural Health Mission Nigeria, providing them with clean birth kits and other supplies to distribute to women.

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Abiye: Ondo's Community-Based Model for Maternal and Child Care Encounters Setbacks

Abdulwasiu Mujeeb

May 19, 2025 |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Akure, Ondo

The Abiye Project registered over 20,000 pregnant women using a community-based model to ensure they receive proper healthcare. The program connected women with trained health rangers who served as liaisons with traditional birth attendants (TBAs). When TBAs’ resistance stalled the program, the government introduced financial incentives, paying them for each patient referral, leading to more hospital births and a reduced child and maternal mortality rate.

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Baby Saver boxes: Lifelines to moms or criminal tools?

Mia Malan, Jessica Pitchford, Yolanda Mdzeke, Anna-Maria van Niekerk, Thatego Mashabela, Justin Barlow

April 30, 2025 |

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Response Location: South Africa, Johannesburg

Baby Savers allow mothers to place their babies for adoption anonymously. The box is monitored, and once a baby is received, social workers are notified to help organize housing and care. Many mothers and advocates see this as life-saving care, though many others are critical of the boxes, and they don’t have support from local government agencies. Despite that, some Savers have been open for over 20 years, taking in thousands of babies over the years.

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In the state with the most C-sections, these hospitals are challenging the status quo

Sophia Paffenroth, Erica Hensley

February 19, 2025 |

Mississippi Today |

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Response Location: United States, Alabama

Three hospitals throughout Mississippi rank at the top for having the lowest number of C-sections in first-time, full-term pregnancies. The hospitals achieved this by making midwife care a regular part of the birthing experience, despite not having a midwifery certification program in the state.

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NC addiction treatment programs partner to reduce maternal deaths from substance use

Rachel Crumpler

January 09, 2025 |

North Carolina Health News |

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Response Location: Holy See (Vatican City State), North Carolina

Six programs throughout the state, including the SUN Project and Project CARA, are working to provide support to pregnant mothers navigating a substance use disorder. With support from the North Carolina Perinatal Substance Use Disorder Network, the programs share best practices for treating perinatal substance use and expand access to treatment. Project CARA alone serves more than 200 patients each year.

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In Yemen's Refugee Camps, Midwives Fight to Ensure Safe Deliveries

Osama al-Saba'i

December 13, 2024 |

More to Her Story |

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Response Location: Yemen, Marib

In displacement camps where medical care is scarce, community midwives are working against the odds to provide safe OB-GYN care and deliveries. An individual midwife can see anywhere from 18 to 50 women a month who struggle to access basic maternal health services.

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