Although the legal age of marriage in India is 18, nearly half of young women marry before their 18th birthday. Over the last decade and a half, little progress has been made in reducing the proportion of adolescents who become brides, according to a new report from the New York–based Guttmacher In more
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With 1,100 women dying during pregnancy or childbirth for every 100,000 live births, Nigeria has one of the highest maternal mortality ratios in the world. A new analysis finds that while the government has adopted policies aimed at reducing maternal mortality by 75% by 2015, those policies have no more
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