One woman dies every two minutes from mostly preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Watch to see why it’s so important for us all to stand together to change the birth story.
Pregnant at 17, Mavis faced not only stigma, but a lack of sexual and reproductive health care options in Ghana. Read more to learn how Mavis obtained the resources needed to #changethebirthstory.
I stand with Canada to change the birth story because I believe that every adolescent girl, woman and child has the right to be healthy and to live a life free of discrimination.
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99%
Of all maternal deaths occur in developing countries.
Approximately
2
million girls under age 15 become pregnant every year.
2.7
million newborn babies die every year.
We’d like to take you through the difficult choices many women, men, adolescent girls and children have to make when faced with issues related to maternal, sexual and reproductive health. Find out what it’s like from the people living through it daily.
Early marriage is a regrettable experience that every lady will not want to experience. It is very common in this community. We are all victims of early marriage which we have all regretted. We wish to have the opportunity to reverse the hands of time.
[There are] long queues at the clinic, no medicines available at the clinic but women are asked to buy. No doctor at the clinic, nurses insulting and mocking young girls. No money for transportation.
During the delivery no one told me what to do to take care of myself.
The #changethebirthstory campaign is all about raising awareness on several key topics such as: sexual and reproductive health, maternal and infant health as well as gender equality. This campaign will also present the work of gender transformative * Gender transformative projects have an explicit rights-based intention to transform unequal gender power relations which are often at the heart of many disadvantages faced by women and girls; the focus goes beyond improving the condition of women and girls to improve their social position. Gender transformative projects address the root causes of gender inequality and promote the value of women and girls projects supported by Plan International Canada and the Government of Canada.
Click below to read more about how Plan International Canada is supporting adolescents, men, women and health workers to #changethebirthstory in their communities.