High levels of infant and child mortality and preference for sons means that women delay sterilisation.
The WHO says there is clear evidence that having a higher ratio of health workers to people boosts infant, child and maternal survival.
Sarah Brown: I became actively involved with infant and child health issues during the time my husband served in the British government, and also through my personal campaigning and charitable activities.
His dream is much grander: to create the world's biggest and best-known brand of infant-and-child products.
These days it seems there is always a story in the news about a missing child or infant.
But what's set Goodbaby apart from other infant-and-child-product manufacturers in China is an infusion of foreign funds and foreign experience.
"While conditions in Somalia have improved in recent months, the country still has one of the highest rates of child malnutrition and infant mortality in the world, " Ben Foot, from the charity Save the Children, said in a statement.
The Saudi interior ministry said on Wednesday that Ms Nafeek was executed for smothering the infant after an argument with the child's mother in the town of al-Dwadmi.
Infant economies, for those countries that depend on other economies like a child on its parents.
In other words, it's something to turn on to divert your infant for a few moments, but it is not intended as a replacement child-minder.
The pro-breastfeeding campaign has drawn the ire of some women who argue it stigmatizes infant formula and interferes with a mother's choice of what to feed her child.
The Code of Cannon Law states that, for a child to be baptised, "there must be a founded hope that the infant will be brought up in the Catholic religion".
He had married and fathered a child when he was only 18 but the relationship fell apart and his wife left him with their infant son.
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