Father's Day: Men Are Key
What is one of the keys to improving maternal and child health in some of the world’s most difficult places to give birth? Men.
Photo credit: Karen Kasmauski/MCSP: Nigeria.
Father's Day: Ending Preventable Child and Maternal Deaths
USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program has an ambitious aim: to end preventable child and maternal deaths within a generation. To achieve these goals, approaches must be regionally and culturally specific.
Photo credit: MNCH Services Project: Pakistan.
Father's Day: Making Decisions
In many countries, men make all health care decisions for their families, including family size, timing of pregnancies, and access to health care. To encourage facility deliveries, both women and men should receive health messages.
Photo credit: Ronald Dangana/MCHIP: Kenya.
Father's Day: Engaging with Men
Involving men often helps us reach those women most in need of services and information. Engaging them is, therefore, critical to reaching our goals and ending the belief that maternal health is the sole responsibility of women.
Photo credit: Kate Holt/MCSP: Madagascar.
Father's Day: Lesson's Learned
In Nigeria, where a husband's permission is needed even for a woman to leave the house, trained male motivators helped local men make the best decisions for a healthy family.
Photo credit: Karen Kasmauski/MCSP: Nigeria.
Father's Day: Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi
In Kenya, Tanzania, and Malawi, women enrolled in programs that teach how to prevent HIV transmission to their child and were encouraged to bring their male partners to clinics for follow-up treatments.
Photo credit: Kate Holt/Jhpiego: Tanzania.
Father's Day: Barriers across the World
In the conservative eastern region of Bangladesh, USAID worked with male groups to be actively engaged in their partner's pregnancies. These men set aside funds for transportation to hospitals for safe delivery should complications arise during labor.
Photo credit: Jhpiego: Bangladesh.
Father's Day: The Maternal and Child Survival Project (MCSP), a USAID Cooperative Agreement, works in 22 countries.
Where women lack agency to make their own health decisions, MCSP works with men within families and communities to ensure that women and children are a priority and thrive.
Photo credit: Karen Kasmauski/MCSP: Nigeria.
Father's Day: Father's Day Request
This Father’s Day, USAID asks men to help the women in their lives make informed choices about seeking care. Men’s participation is crucial to closing the achievement gaps that remain and to realizing the world all of us want for our mothers and children.
Photo credit: Indrani Kashyap/Jhpiego: India.
Last updated: March 29, 2021
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