“This has been an area that’s so important and so challenging. It is essential to think about all aspects of that. For example, one of the areas that the Foundation is now funding is family planning, so that a woman, or a young woman in particular, can decide when she wants to become pregnant, that that’s a decision she can make and she can space her children. And so I think it starts with that. We also have a big focus on nutrition, so a mom having a good nutritional status when she’s pregnant, again, very helpful. And then, again, working with local groups, with ministries of health, to make sure that a woman can deliver at a facility, where things are there available should she need the kind of care that having the baby at home wouldn’t enable her to have.”

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