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• Sarah Brown: midwives crucial to stopping women dying in childbirth

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  Sarah Brown, the Prime Ministers wife, has called for more to be done to stop women dying in childbirth around the world.
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• Proposed Abortion Law in Peru Meets Heavy Opposition

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 738
  Various Latin American countries are creating barriers to access to safe abortion except in exceptional circumstances, while also reforming their constitutions in order to avoid any possibility of liberalizing the procedure.   But in Peru a multidisciplinary committee in charge of revising the Penal Code has ...
  5 days ago

• When The Man Left Zambia, The Natives Started Buggering Each Other To Death

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 145
  When the British ran the country that became Zambia , the natives had an average life expectancy of around 65 years. Since they’ve taken charge of their own affairs, their standard of living has halved along with their life expectancy. As Wikipedia says : "Per capita annual incomes are currently at about ...
  5 days ago

• maternal mortality in the US and abroad

  
  DoulaMomma — Authority: 112
  from BBC news: click here to see a video interview - one story of loss, right here in NJ Maternal mortality across the world The US spends more money on mothers health than any other nation in the world, yet women in America are more likely to die during childbirth than they ...
  2 weeks ago

• Campaigning on maternal mortality in Latin America

  
  Livewire - Amnesty International blogging for human rights — Authority: 112
  By Fernanda Doz Costa,Researcher on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the AmericasLast Friday, I participated in a very interesting hearing about maternal mortality, where four experts from the Americas gave testimony before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights  in Washington DC.It was great working in ...
  2 weeks ago

• AIDS Leading Cause Of Death For Women Worldwide [Sobering Statistics]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 813
  According to a new study by the World Health Organization, AIDS is the leading cause of death and disease in women 15 to 44 around the world. Also upsetting: maternal mortality accounts for 15% of adult female deaths. [ AP ]
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• U.S. health care ranks where?

  
  SMOKINCHOICES (and other musings) — Authority: 122
  This Breaking News from the Columbus Dispatch Forum should be worth thinking about. . . was for me.    Jan U.S. has best health care in the world? Hardly NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF       Nikolas D  Kristof  writes for the New York Times The moment of truth for health care is at hand, and the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Girls’ Guilde To The Economy Part 24–Saving Women’s Lives A Financial Bargain Compared To The Cost Of War

  
  Feminist Peace Network — Authority: 555
  “Life and death is a political decision because we know what works and needs to be done.” according to UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid , a point surely not lost on Americans who have witnessed health care becoming a political football in this country. Speaking about the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Human Rights Facts (160): Numbers of Abortions Going Down

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 433
  You can see from the graph below that the numbers of abortions, compared to 15 years ago, are down: from 35 abortions per 1,000 women to 29. This reduction took place all over the world, albeit not in equal measure everywhere. Unintended pregnancies have also fallen, from 69 per 1,000 women in 1995 to 55 per 1,000 in ...
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• A Heroic Doctor, a Global Scourge

  
  Nicholas D. Kristof — Authority: 624
  Its time for a global effort to eradicate obstetric fistula.
  4 weeks ago

• Health parameters in India close to sub-Saharan Africa: minister

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Kolkata, Oct 30 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Health Dinesh Trivedi Friday said that many health parameters in India are close to that of sub-Saharan Africa.Addressing a seminar at the Health and Lifestyle Conclave 2009, organised by the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) here, the minister said that ...
  4 weeks ago

• Earlier, in a thread about birth control…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 540
  Earlier, in a thread about birth control when the question of weighing the risks of pregnancy in choosing whether to use birth control came up, one commenter said: It’s one thing to be aware of the risks of pregnancy – and more importantly how best to look after your health and diet to minimise any health ...
  4 weeks ago

• Government moots scheme to combat social evils against women

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Oct 28 (IANS) If all goes well, the government will soon launch a national programme, called the National Mission for Women, to combat social evils against women. This will be chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.Proposed by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, the ‘umbrella mission’ will ...
  4 weeks ago

• Government system failure killing mothers in Madhya Pradesh

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Sanjay SharmaBhopal, Oct 28 (IANS) A complaint by a patient that a doctor in a government-run hospital left her unattended in the operation theatre has turned the spotlight on the role played — or not played — by these hospitals in reducing deaths at childbirth in Madhya Pradesh, a state with one of the [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Best of the BBC: Maternal mortality worldwide

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 604
  As part of a BBC World Service mini-series on maternal mortality, BBC reporter Jill McGivering travels to Pakistan. Every year, as many as 30,000 women die in childbirth in Pakistan. That’s about one child dying every half-hour. In her report, McGivering goes to rural areas of Sindh Province, and meets with ...
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• Call to act on maternal mortality

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 164
  Health ministers from around the world say swift action must be taken to reduce global maternal mortality rates. Read the original:  Call to act on maternal mortality
  4 weeks ago

• Mortality During Child Birth

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 158
  I was watching the BBC World News this morning and saw a segment about the World Health meeting that is going on in Addis Ababa.  The WHO has declared that the mortality of mothers during child birth is a “human emergency” and that it’s almost always preventable.  The WHO meeting is for health ministers from ...
  4 weeks ago

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