Family and Child Welfare

Family and Child Welfare 3 (3+0)

Lesson 4 : Millennium Development Goals and Child Protection

Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health

Child Abuse: Abuses against adolescent girls endanger their physical and psychological health, and should they become mothers, their reproductive health as well.

Child Marriage: Protecting girls from child marriage is an important factor in improving maternal health as pregnancy at a young age and take care of the health of young mothers.

Conflict/ civil disturbance: Young mother’s access to critical health-care services.

Sexual Violence: Widespread sexual violence in conflict/civil disturbances has a direct impact on maternal mortality, in particular when combined with high levels of HIV/AIDS prevalence.