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Transforming the Birth Experience in the Philippines with Quality Maternity Care and Free Birth Centers
Maternal and infant survival rates at Mercy in Action birth centers are four times higher than the national average. For more than a decade, Vitamin Angels has partnered with Mercy in Action, a Philippines-based nonprofit that has been sponsoring free birth centers and facilitating the delivery of quality maternity care since 1991. Together, we work…
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A Wave of Need: A Midwife’s Story
The 2013 storm marked one of the deadliest typhoons to strike the Visayas island group in the central Philippines, claiming over 6,300 lives. At landfall, Haiyan (Yolanda) had maximum sustained winds of 195 mph, making it one of the most powerful tropical cyclones to strike land.¹ The physical destruction and economic impact pushed an estimated…
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Vitamin Angels And Makueni County Launch Kenya’s First County-Wide Prenatal Vitamin Program To Improve Maternal Health And Inform Nationwide Expansion
PRESS RELEASE Vitamin Angels And Makueni County Launch Kenya’s First County-Wide Prenatal Vitamin Program To Improve Maternal Health And Inform Nationwide Expansion The four-year program will deliver free multiple micronutrient supplements (MMS), also known as prenatal multivitamins, to pregnant women in Makueni County, with key learnings to inform Kenya’s nationwide scale-up. Makueni County, in partnership…