SECTION 1.5 GOAL #5: IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH 5
This goal has two targets and six indicators. Following a stellar year in 2011, with no maternal deaths recorded, there were three maternal deaths in 2012. While the country is on target for its skilled birth attendance rate, there are regional and ethnic disparities that need to be addressed. Progress has been made in public and private sector institutions that contribute to providing access to contraceptive methods, which improve the contraceptive use prevalence rate, but cultural barriers remain that stymie individual access. These barriers also pose a challenge for sustained reductions in the adolescent birth rate when coupled with the legal limitation of adolescents having to access sexual and reproductive health only with parental consent. Almost one out every five neonatal deaths is among adolescents. More positively, there have been notable accomplishments in reducing the unmet need for family planning and antenatal care coverage remained high.
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