Working to SurviveMaternal Complications, Suicide Among Top Reasons For Sex Workers’ Deaths: Study A lack of data makes identifying causes of mortality among sex workers in countries like India difficult. By Amlan Sarkar
Raise The BarCentre’s Task Force to Consider Revising Women’s Legal Age for Marriage From 18 to 21 India is one of the ten countries with the largest burden of teenage pregnancy due to child marriage practices. By Anubhuti Matta
Life And DeathMore Mothers and Newborns Are Surviving Childbirth Than Ever — But Only in Some Parts of the World In countries with poor access to good medical facilities, one newborn or mother still dies every 11 seconds, per a WHO-UNICEF report. By Anubhuti Matta
What You Need To KnowMaternal Death Risk After C‑Section Is Five Times Higher Than After Vaginal Birth The number of C-section deliveries in India is twice the global average and much higher than WHO recommendations. By Pallavi Prasad
