The DHS Program

IRIN

...The eastern Somali region has the highest prevalence at 97.3 percent against 73.3 nationally, according to Ethiopia's 2005 Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS)...

THE FINANCIAL EXPRESS (Bangladesh)

...Referring to a report of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2007, Ruhal Haque said every year some 0.12 million newborns die in the country within 28 days of their birth and that breastfeeding within an hour of birth could possibly prevent death of some 37,000 newborns...

Samuel Siringi
DAILY NATION (Kenya)

...Although the figure represents a drop from the 16 of every 100 married women who had co-wives in 2003, the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS), 2008/2009 says Kenyan men should restrain themselves from taking more than one wife...

Arthur Okwemba
DAILY NATION (Kenya)

...The push for the law follows admission of rape by women who participated in the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS), 2008-09, whose results were released recently.

At least 14 percent of the married women surveyed said they had been forced to have sex by current husbands and partners in the year preceding the study. Another 37 percent said they had been subjected to sexual violence by current husbands or partners...

IRIN

...The Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) showed that the percentage of uneducated girls and women from the age of six in rural areas dropped from 50 percent in 1993 to 32 percent in 2007; in urban areas the figure fell from 34 percent in 1993, and to 23 percent in 2007...