New program to improve maternal health in Phl

MANILA, Philippines - CARD Mutually Reinforcing Institutions (CARD MRI), the Microcredit Summit Campaign, and Freedom from Hunger hosted an event to launch a joint program called “Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies: Kalinga kay Inay.” The program will improve health knowledge and promote behavior change for more than 600,000 women by the end of 2015 to decrease the high maternal mortality rate in the Philippines.

Jaime Aristotle B. Alip, CARD MRI founder and managing director said, “We hope that we will be able to reach more socially-and-economically challenged Filipinos especially those in their reproductive age. We hope that maternal mortality among CARD members will significantly decrease due to this partnership.”