Additional Context: This quote was collected as part of The Aid Report's original reporting, "In Nepal, US ends effort to help women make life-or-death choices." The reporter looked into the impacts of aid cuts on a nationwide program designed to "break gender norms that undervalued women's lives." The Adolescent Reproductive Health, or ARH, program worked across homes, schools, and villages to shift behaviors around pregnancy, childbirth, and adolescent health.

Many of the frontline health workers who were supported by the ARH program have continued to serve women on their own. Community health volunteers regularly visit pregnant women's homes to verify hospital attendance, antenatal checkups, and supplement intake. Midwives target those skipping regular checkups or facing risks with home visits. But the coordination and funding that used to drive this work has come to an end.

Source: Devex