home births

Less medical intervention during planned home birth is associated with a tripling of the neonatal mortality rate vs planned hospital birth, according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis reported online first July 1 and will appear in the September 10 print issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology

India's Census: Lots of Cellphones, too Few Toilets

Similarly in Nepal. 74% households have cellphones, 46% has a chair and 38% population practice open defecation.

Ethiopian family planing

Well, over half of women in urban areas (Addis Ababa especially) use modern contraception methods, over half of women with secondary education and sexually active unmarried women also. Actually women with secondary education have 1.9 children on average.

On the other hand - poor, uneducated, married women living in rural areas don't have access to family planning. This is true for most of Sub-Saharan Africa.