Women’s lives not a priority?
The world is seeing progress on such worthy goals as ending hunger and extreme poverty, conquering pervasive health menaces like AIDS and malaria, achieving universal primary education and ensuring...
View ArticleSummit goals: Save more mothers, babies
World leaders gathered in New York this week for the so-called September Summit to beat the drums for the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations, one of which is slashing the rate of...
View ArticleIn these three days, 2,942 deaths in childbirth
Every ninety seconds, somewhere in the world, a mother dies in childbirth. For three days this week, in Times Square in New York City, Amnesty International, a global human rights group, placed a...
View ArticleMalawi eases rule on birth attendants
The African nation of Malawi will take a new tack in its campaign to improve its maternal-mortality statistics. Almost immediately after his return from the United Nations meeting in New York on the...
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Making a difference in maternal mortality
It isn't that childbirth is more inherently dangerous in countries where many women die in childbirth than in those where relatively few die. The women who survive, statistically speaking, are getting...
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