Countries: Latvia
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"The Committee...welcomes the fact that the State party promotes healthy lifestyles for women and girls and that the implementation of the maternal and child health improvement plan for the period 2018–2020 and of the public health guidelines for the period 2014–2020 has resulted in the improvement of a number of indicators in the area of maternal and child health, including the reduction of infant mortality" (12). "The Committee...notes with concern...[t]he limited access to high-quality maternal health care throughout pregnancy and delivery for undocumented migrant women, who are ineligible for the State party’s compulsory health insurance, and to high-quality mental health care services...The Committee recommends that the State party…ensure affordable, and,...more

Countries: Mexico
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"Mexico’s Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the practice of womb surrogacy. According to the ruling, surrogates are not to receive compensation for their services, limiting the exchange of money to cover expenses related to the pregnancy" (par. 1-2). Surrogate mothers can receive compensation to cover the expenses related to their pregnancy (IME - CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Belize
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"Horizon2030 discusses financing civil society organizations providing critical health services to women, children, pregnant teens, young mothers and those vulnerable to HIV and violence" (18). "Belize continued with its prevention of Mother-to-child transmission of HIV programme. Free HIV test are offered to all pregnant women. In 2010, out of the 6,631 registered pregnant women, there was 93.2 per cent coverage with HIV testing. 53 women were detected as HIV positive. The number of women who are HIV+ and pregnant decreased by around 10 per cent when compared to previous years but almost 50 per cent were repeat and unplanned pregnancies. All pregnant women detected as HIV positive receive treatment at...more

Countries: Cameroon
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

“As the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula approaches…, scores of women who have been treated for the medical condition are encouraging their peers in northern Cameroon to get help...Now former patients and aid groups are telling families fistula can be treated. The network of women who have been successfully operated on for obstetric fistula in Cameroon's northern region say they are educating communities that it is a disease that can be treated. Hospital workers say obstetric fistula is a hole between the birth canal and bladder or rectum, caused by prolonged, obstructed labor without access to timely, high-quality medical treatment. The disease leaves women and girls leaking urine, feces...more

Countries: Guatemala
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"With regard to preventing and raising awareness of child and adolescent pregnancy, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare prepared a guide on the provision of comprehensive and differentiated care to pregnant girls under 14 years of age. It has supervised operations on the ground in order to ensure that health-care staff in hospitals comply with the guide, providing training, and to record cases in the Health Information Management System. Through the Bureau for the Epidemiological Monitoring of Pregnancies in Children under 14 Years of Age, the Ministry coordinates the analyses and actions performed by health-care personnel in prevention, care and follow-up care. The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare...more

Countries: Lithuania
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"[There are limited levels of] access to high -quality maternal health care throughout pregnancy and delivery for undocumented migrant women, who are ineligible for the State party ’s compulsory health insurance" (12).

Countries: Gabon
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"The National Health Insurance and Social Protection Fund expedites and facilitates birth registration by covering the costs of vaginal deliveries for all women who have health insurance" (14). "In 2018, Gabon launched a programme to make childbirth free of charge for all women, regardless of income or place of residence (rural or urban). This programme entitles women to: Free prenatal consultations and laboratory work[,] A full birthing kit, including medications[,] A full caesarean section kit[,] Payment of all fees associated with childbirth, including delivery by caesarean section[, and] A baby clothing bundle and a postnatal consultation" (18).

Countries: D R Congo
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"[B]asic emergency obstetric and neonatal care are insufficient and inadequate" (12). "[F]ree maternity care [is not provided] to cover prenatal and postnatal care for disadvantaged groups of women[. A]ccess [needs to be improved] throughout the territory to basic prenatal and postnatal care and emergency obstetric services provided by skilled birth attendants (13). This can indicate that basic prenatal and postnatal care is present but lack access due to the cost or the limit of skilled birth attendants (MV-coder comment).

Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"[D]iscrimination and physical and psychological violence against women [were reported] in maternity wards" (12). "[A]ll allegations of violence against women by staff in maternity wards [are not properly investigated]" (13). "[A]ll health service staff [are not trained] on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women, in particular pregnant women and women and girls living with HIV/AIDS" (13). "[There is] limited access to health-care services, including maternal care services [against refugee and asylum-seeking women]... "[T]he special needs of refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls [are not addressed], including through the provision of delivery and postnatal care in reception centres" (14).

Countries: Botswana
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"Government collaborates with Men Care, a civil society organisation, to strengthen greater involvement of men in ante-natal, delivery and post-natal care as well as child rearing" (14). "In this regard the country continues to intensify capacity-building for nurses and doctors through the Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (CEmONC) training to improve quality in the provision of comprehensive abortion care to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality" (19).

Countries: Singapore
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"In January 2021, an inter-agency taskforce was set up to oversee the development of a Child and Maternal Health and Well-being Strategy and Action Plan to better support women and their children… [E]very pregnant woman will have equitable access to quality maternal care services including pre-natal check-ups, obstetrics services, neo-natal care and breastfeeding and lactation support" (6).

Countries: China
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"The Government provides free screening for HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B for all pregnant women, as well as free comprehensive interventions and services for preventing mother-to-child transmission for all infected pregnant women and their children... In 2017, more than 99 per cent of pregnant women received testing for HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B; 90 per cent of HIV-infected pregnant women were treated with antiretroviral drugs; 80 per cent of syphilis-infected pregnant women were on treatment; the rate of mother-to-child transmission of HIV fell to 4.9 per cent… 99.7 per cent of children born to hepatitis B-infected women received hepatitis B immune globulin injections; and 96.8 per cent of newborns were...more

Countries: China
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"According to statistics, in 2017, early pregnancy registration and postnatal visits covered more than 85 per cent of pregnant women" (24). Not every pregnant woman received prenatal care and early registration (MV-coder comment).

Countries: United States
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

“'Today’s Senate vote is a historic victory that has been more than 10 years in the making,' said Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center. 'When this end-of year package passes the House and is signed into law, it will no longer be the case that pregnant workers can be ousted from their jobs for simply requesting basic accommodations like permission to sit on a stool, carry a bottle of water, or take additional bathroom breaks'" (para 5). "[C]ourts have interpreted the protections offered by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act narrowly, allowing employers to refuse to accommodate workers with medical needs arising out of pregnancy. This...more

Countries: Guyana
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"[P]regnant women in indigenous communities were not receiving mandatory HIV tests" (11).