World Health Organization urges South Sudan Parliamentarians to advocate for the empowerment of women and ensure gender equality to improve their health.
Director of Health, David Evans, calls on MPs to address education of all South Sudanese especially women and girls to make a better choice about reproductive health.
Parliamentarians need to enlighten women on gender equality, he adds.
Delivery of women and young girls at health institutes is very low because people give birth at homes, says Alexander Dimiti, Direction Generation of Reproduction Health in the national Ministry of Health.
He adds that only 46 percent of the women attain the first antenatal care and disappear.
The recent birth rate is 158 for every 1000 live birth.