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In many low-income countries, a random calendar dictates how people receive care: Monday is for vaccinations, Tuesday for antenatal care, Wednesday for family planning.
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Melinda Gates, Foreign Affairs, 15 July 2020
The country’s health system had historically been one of the world’s worst, but the maternal death rate had dropped more than 50 percent since 1990, and some level of antenatal care was almost universal.
—Melinda Gates, Foreign Affairs, 15 July 2020
Kuol said the clinic faces shortages of medicines including malaria drugs, post-rape drugs, antenatal drugs and others, again because of waning donor support.
—Deng MacHol, ajc, 30 Oct. 2022
The updated advice means that women may have their partner or support person with them in the birth unit and postnatal and antenatal wards during the current COVID-19 outbreak where Greater Sydney is in lockdown.
—Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2021
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Melinda Gates, Foreign Affairs, 15 July 2020
The country’s health system had historically been one of the world’s worst, but the maternal death rate had dropped more than 50 percent since 1990, and some level of antenatal care was almost universal.
—Melinda Gates, Foreign Affairs, 15 July 2020
Kuol said the clinic faces shortages of medicines including malaria drugs, post-rape drugs, antenatal drugs and others, again because of waning donor support.
—Deng MacHol, ajc, 30 Oct. 2022
The updated advice means that women may have their partner or support person with them in the birth unit and postnatal and antenatal wards during the current COVID-19 outbreak where Greater Sydney is in lockdown.
—Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antenatal
prenatal
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Combined, Medicaid and CHIP protect nearly half of all children in the United States, beginning with important prenatal care, covering over 40% of U.S. births as well as nearly half of all rural births, and continuing to insure millions of vulnerable children into young adulthood.—
Cory Turner,
NPR,
20 June 2025
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As Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) has noted, the fear of an enormous bill leads some women to delay or even skip prenatal or postpartum care, endangering their health and their baby's.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
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