basic health care
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basic health-care
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Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.
Restricting access to such a basic health care service, which 99% of sexually experienced American women have used and 62% of American women are using right now, is out of touch with public sentiment.
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.
These attempts to silence women and the men who support them have clearly failed. I know this because I have received so many messages of support from across the country -- women and men speaking out because they agree that contraception needs to be treated as a basic health care service.
Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.