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Childbirth Death

A Kickstarter For Life-Saving Surgeries

Leila Chirayath Janah | Posted 01.12.2013 | Impact
Read More: Childbirth Death, Childbirth Complications, Impactx, Poverty, Global Poverty, Sierra Leone, Childbirth, Impact News
Leila Chirayath Janah

Last year, I went to Sierra Leone on a trip with the State Department and stumbled into a problem that eats away at all the happiness of the last few weeks. I learned that in Sierra Leone, one in eight women die in childbirth.

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U.K. Mother's Day -- A Cause for Celebration, But Not for All

Nancy Durrell McKenna | Posted 05.16.2012 | Impact
Read More: Dfid, Newborns, Stillbirths, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pregnancy, Making It Happen, Childbirth, UK Mother's Day, Safehands for Mothers, Newborn Fatality, Mother's Day, Childbirth Death, Childbirth Complications, Women Childbirth, Neonatal Deaths, Maternal Mortality, Global Motherhood, Impact News
Nancy Durrell McKenna

Each year, 358,000 women worldwide die from complications arising from pregnancy and childbirth, there are four million neonatal deaths and three million stillbirths.

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In Solidarity To End Maternal Mortality Around The World

Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Women Childbirth, Maternal Mortality Rate, Childbirth Death, International Women's Day 2011, International Women's Day Centennial, International Women's Day, Maternal Health, Maternal Mortality, Childbirth, Impact News
Christy Turlington Burns

Whereas in the U.S. motherhood is for most women a joyous celebration, in many developing countries it is often said that to be pregnant is to put one foot in the grave.

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A Matter of Life and Death: The Preventable Crisis of Maternal Mortality

Rev. Debra Haffner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Childbirth, Maternal Mortality, Childbirth Death, Women, Pregnancy, Millenium Development Goals, United Nations, Religion News
Rev. Debra Haffner

Too many people of faith are unaware of the tragic and unending scale of maternal mortality. To bring attention to this global tragedy, we are calling on religious leaders to become involved.

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Giving Every Daughter a Mother

Elizabeth Adler | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Childbirth Death, Wie, Millennium Development Goals, Women Inspiration and Enterprise, Childbirth, Maternal Mortality, World News
Elizabeth Adler

Maternal mortality is a tragedy of global inequity. But if we commit ourselves to changing the health care delivery systems that fail poor, rural women, we can eliminate this tragedy.

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How To Save Our Nation's Budget and Start Nurturing American Families

Shaana Keller | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Children, Health, Midwife, Hospitals, Childbirth-Death, Childrens Health, Babies, Maternal Health, Health Care, Maternal Mortality, Childbirth, Healthy Living News
Shaana Keller

In the United States today, more than 95% of our pregnant moms deliver in a hospital setting. Yet, for normal pregnancies, science has proven that it is safer to use a midwifery model of care.

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Build for Mothers and You Build for Everyone

Sarah Brown | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Women, Women's Healthcare, Africa, First Ladies Summit, Women's Health, Women Mortality Rate, Disease, Maternal Mortality Rate, Childbirth Death, Sarah Brown, Maternal Mortality, Childbirth, Usdfa, New York-New York, Los Angeles-California, Tanzania, Italy, United Kingdom, World News
Sarah Brown

We will make progress on HIV/AIDS, education, nutrition, health care, on immunization, even, I believe, on the environment, if we reduce the number of mothers dying needlessly in childbirth.

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