In 2008, 1.8 million children’s lives could have been saved if all mothers had secondary education, according to the 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report. That’s just one of the many health benefits of maternal education that we have underlined in EFA Global Monitoring Reports. To mark World Health Day, April 7, here are some others that we have highlighted in blog posts, infographics and reports:
Educated mothers know more about HIV. As we highlighted on World AIDS Day 2011, about 1,000 children are infected with HIV every day, almost all of them during their mother’s pregnancy, during childbirth or when they are being breastfed. These infections could be avoided if mothers knew more about how HIV is transmitted. In fact, women with post-primary education are five times more likely than illiterate women to be educated about HIV and AIDS.
Maternal education increases antenatal care. Women with education are far more likely to immunize their children and seek antenatal care. As our Education Countsbooklet pointed out, in Indonesia child vaccination rates are 19% when mothers have no education. This increases to 60% when mothers have at least a secondary school education.
Deepa Singh
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