To get a prescription, a woman has to visit a doctor, spending time registering and waiting at a clinic. The threshold is much higher than purchasing it at a pharmacy. A woman could miss the optimal ...
Carrying her infant daughter, 19-year-old Sithulisiwe Moyo waited two hours to get birth-control pills from a tent pitched in a poor settlement on the outskirts of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare.
From pregnancy to postpartum, American mothers are experiencing higher rates of complications and negative health outcomes than any other developed nation in the world. Although the maternal health ...