Kenya: World Population Day – Renewing Our Promise to Every Woman and Every Newborn Everywhere

On World Population Day, we are often asked to look at numbers such as how many people we are, how fast we are growing, and what our population will need in the years ahead. They should help us understand the conditions into which people are born, the systems that shape their health and opportunity, and the futures they are able to build.

In Kenya, there are a few numbers that stop us in our tracks. Every single day, we lose an estimated 15 mothers to pregnancy-related causes, 92 newborns die and…