July-is Maternal and Child Health Month

 

What Is your Rotary Club doing to focus on Maternal and Child Health in July 2024?
Every day mothers risk their lives giving birth and millions of children die each year from treatable, preventable causes. At least 7 million children under the age of five die each year due to malnutrition, poor health care, and inadequate sanitation. To help reduce this rate, we provide immunizations and antibiotics to babies, improve access to essential medical services, and support trained healthcare providers for mothers and their children. Your Rotary projects ensure sustainability by empowering the local community to take ownership of healthcare training programs. And there is more.....

 

 Watch how Rotary helps bring health care to mothers and newborns in rural Haiti

Through grants from The Rotary Foundation, Rotarians improve access to essential medical services for mothers and their children. These efforts are aimed at reducing the number of children under age five who die each year because of malnutrition, inadequate health care, and poor sanitation – a figure that is currently estimated at 7 million.

According to another estimate, more than 80 percent of maternal deaths can be prevented with access to reproductive health services and trained health care workers. Rotarians provide education, immunizations, birthing kits, and mobile health clinics to support these causes. Women are taught how to prevent mother-to-infant HIV transmission, how to breast-feed, and how to protect themselves and their children from disease.

Encourage your friends , relatives, neighbors, and business associates to:

  • Join Rotary and help save mothers and children.

  • Give now to support maternal and child health.

READ NEWS ABOUT ROTARY'S WORK TO PROMOTE MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH, ONE OF ROTARY'S 7 AREAS OF FOCUS

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