CARE is helping transform Bihar’s healthcare system, and improve the quality of services available. Bihar, in India, is home to millions of people living on or below the poverty line – in some rural parts, it can be up to 60 per cent. According to India’s 2013 census data, maternal and child mortality rates in […]
PNG: Birth attendants offer hope
by Blossum Gilmour, Mamayo Health Project Manager Where did you give birth? In my family’s coffee garden. Who assisted you? No one. This is how a conversation started between CARE PNG staff and a new mother in rural Papua New Guinea. CARE had agreed to help the provincial government assess the support available to pregnant […]