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Communities with less social capital have higher teenage pregnancy, child suicide, pre-natal mortality and crime rates.
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The Kaiser Family Foundation reports that women are in greater need of preventive care such as mammograms and pre-natal diagnostics.
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The money will fund four discreet projects between now and 2015, including administration of vaccines and pre-natal and infant care.
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Though it is not yet clear whether such pre-natal exposure shapes taste-perception, there is evidence that it shapes preferences for foods encountered later in life.
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Not breast-feeding is, nevertheless, an effective addition to pre-natal antiviral drugs.
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He noted that in rural areas where such beliefs are more common, women often give birth without ever seeing a midwife, let alone having a pre-natal scan.
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That is when the new health care law, the Affordable Care Act, will require insurance providers and Medicaid to cover clinical preventative services for women, including pre-natal care, all without charging a co-pay, co-insurance or a deductible.
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We are hoping that with our innovative projects such as the system of rice intensification (SRI) in Mali (SRI), or our soybean (Zimbabwe) and health projects like the Liberian pre-natal village clinics are all areas where private sector partners, particularly from Brazil and the U.S. will see the sustainable benefits for the people of Africa.
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