Information on contraception is also given to all women who come to these centers for antenatal or postnatal visits.

The ACSD initiative is scaling up packages of cost effective interventions, including immunization and antenatal care, in 11 countries in West Africa.

The Government is making efforts to procure and ensure the distribution to all health facilities of essential drugs and equipment for antenatal and postnatal care and for the effective management of childhood illnesses.

The Government, in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), had made contraceptives available in those three major regions and women were encouraged to attend family planning centres, which were based in the antenatal clinics.

When an HIV positive mother receives antenatal treatment so that her child can be born HIV free, we change the future. When a child is spared cerebral malaria and the lifelong mental disabilities that it can cause, new possibilities are created.

Through focus area 1, UNICEF will support maternal mortality reduction through support for antenatal care, strengthening of health systems, and the promotion of breastfeeding and child spacing, and through data driven, evidence based advocacy and partnerships on maternal health issues.

It is, however, concerned at the regional disparities in mortality rates, the inadequate antenatal care, which is not completely free, the inhumane treatment of children in psychiatric hospitals, and the increase in cases of communicable diseases, such as tuberculosis and HIV AIDS.

Services should include the following high quality options antenatal, perinatal and post natal care, when requested, both for woman and baby post abortion care and measures to ensure women's access to safe, legal abortions when requested and safe sterilization, again only when requested.

(e) To take measures to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV, including the provision of essential drugs, appropriate antenatal, delivery and post partum care, voluntary counselling and testing services for pregnant women and their partners and support for mothers, such as counselling on infant feeding options

Efforts to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity among indigenous women have included the establishment of culturally appropriate birthing centres (which also provide prenatal care), antenatal care programmes, the training of indigenous health workers and a network of community controlled primary health care services at the local level.

The Australian Government's efforts to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity among indigenous women include the establishment of culturally appropriate birthing centres (which also provide prenatal care), antenatal care programmes, the training of indigenous health workers, and a network of community controlled primary health care services at the local level.

The Government is providing funding to improve indigenous peoples' access to comprehensive primary health care services. The funding provides for coordinated clinical care and population health, as well as health promotion activities including screening, antenatal services and maternal and child health, to facilitate illness prevention, early interventions and effective illness management.

(e) To take measures to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV, including the provision of essential drugs, appropriate antenatal, delivery and post partum care, voluntary and confidential counselling and testing services for pregnant women and their partners and support for mothers, such as counselling on infant feeding options and access to treatment, including antiretroviral treatment

The Committee recommends that the State party undertake more efforts to ensure the highest attainable standard of health for all children, to improve antenatal care programmes, to prevent the spread of contagious diseases such as HIV AIDS and tuberculosis, to improve psychiatric care so as to ensure that children with psychiatric problems are treated humanely and to explicitly prohibit placing children in adult psychiatric hospitals.