Professor Jeremy Shiffman, a political scientist at Syracuse University who has a particular interest in maternal, newborn, and child health, has been developing a new field of enquiry to analyze the critical factors underlying successful political advocacy for global health causes. His case study on political priority for reducing maternal mortality was presented at the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘maternal mortality’
October 30, 2008
BBC Documentary on Maternal Health
The BBC has produced a new multi-series documentary called “Survival” that includes a 45-minute look at maternal health in Bangladesh. To capture the true story, the filmmakers traveled to a remote area in the North East of Bangladesh and filmed the labor of a young woman, Morjina, in her small hut with the aid of [...]
October 17, 2008
Women Deliver at ONE: What a Difference a Year Makes!
One year ago, on October 18-20, nearly 2,000 participants from 115 countries came together to call for increased political will and investment in maternal health. We all agreed: Invest in women – it pays! Activists, global health organizations, governments, and non-governmental groups gathered at this international conference in London to demand action to save the [...]
October 14, 2008
Spotlight on Sierra Leone
There was a great feature in the Washington Post this weekend all about maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. Unfortunately, Sierra Leone has an extremely high maternal mortality rate — 1 in 8 women die during childbirth. The Post’s feature includes articles on women dying during childbirth, stillborn births, and multimedia photo galleries and a video from the [...]
October 8, 2008
New Tool to Track Maternal Mortality
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has introduced a new tool in India to help health-care experts, policymakers, and local communities understand the causes of the high rates of maternal mortality across the country. The tool, known as the Maternal and Perinatal Death Inquiry and Response (MAPEDIR), has collected data and analyzed the cases of [...]
October 6, 2008
Why is Africa Plagued with Maternal Mortality?
There’s a great blog post on RH Reality Check today about maternal mortality in Africa: On Maternal Mortality, Why Africa Falls So Far Behind. In the post, Edna Adan Ismail lists some of the reasons why African women die in pregnancy and childbirth: nutrition, education, high fertility, female genital mutilation, improper care at delivery and inadequate [...]
October 1, 2008
Giving Birth in Afghanistan
Oxfam took Alix Fazzina, a top photojournalist, to Badakhshan, Afghanistan, where she met and photographed the families behind the statistics and the doctors, midwives and traditional birth attendants trying to save women’s lives. In Afghanistan, a woman dies every 27 minutes due to pregnancy-related complications. There are 1,600 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births but in [...]
