He says C-section births have been linked to an increased risk of allergic reactions, diabetes and leukemia later in life.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

The World Health Organization says the United States has forty-one births for every one thousand girls age fifteen to nineteen.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

When my mother and grandmother told the story of our births, it was mostly of how Caroline had refused to breathe.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

Chris Howson says many of the causes of preterm births are related to poverty and weak health-care systems.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

America's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says caesarean births rose to nearly thirty-two percent of all births in two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

Chris Howson says premature births must be reduced if that goal is to be met.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

The rise of these births may be linked to increased use of drugs to start or speed up labor and more births by Cesarean section.

VOA: special.2009.10.26

At thirty-five it rises to one in three hundred fifty births.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

The country aims to reduce the ratio of infants dying before their first birthday to 50 per 1,000 live births or five percent.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Skilled birthing attendants are present at 25 to 30 percent of births in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

The country had hoped to bring that figure down to 140 deaths per 100,000 births by 2015 as part of its commitment to its Millennium Development Goals,or MDGs.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10