Informed decision-making as the key to reproductive health: enabling health pregnancies before conception

Pregnant women can do a lot to protect their unborn children. But sometimes, the greatest protections occur long before pregnancy. In developing countries, women often don’t have access to good, easy-to-understand information about reproductive health. In fact, many don’t even know that family planning is possible. TNO and its partners aim to...

A healthy start for every child: tracking child development for better life-long health

Children with delayed develop-ment during infancy and early childhood can experience a lifetime of challenges. Of all children living in low- and middle-income countries, about 43% are at risk for developmental delay. The effort to improve the health and well-being of children around the world begins with a single way to measure and track child...

Check2gether: antenanal care for mothers who need most: preventing maternal and infant morbidity and mortality in developing countries

In some parts of the world, women have access to all the care they need to have a well-monitored and safe pregnancy, and to give birth to a healthy child. But in developing countries, especially in rural areas, access to effective antenatal care is far from ideal. Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children die in childbirth from...