Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's new book should be of particular concern to anyone familiar with Millennium Development Goal number five: reducing maternal mortality.
Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.28.2009 | Impact
Can you imagine a world in which one mother goes missing every minute of every day? According to UNICEF, we're living in it. More than 500,000 women...
Human Rights Watch | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
Despite National Commitment, Many Unable to Access Services By Aruna Kashyap, South Asia Researcher in the Women's Rights Division (Lucknow, India)...
Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 10.02.2009 | World
Editor's note: Hanna Ingber Win, the Huffington Post's World Editor, was recently invited by the UN Population Fund to visit its maternal health progr...
Dr. Ana Langer | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
You wouldn't expect a plenary session at the CGI called "Moving From Crisis to Opportunity - Financing an Equitable Future," featuring the CEO of JP Morgan, to be the natural venue for launching a major maternal health initiative.
Queen Rania of Jordan | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
Each year, more than a half million women lose their lives from complications arising before, during, or after childbirth. In the stories that follow, we would like to share our personal perspectives.
Ann Pettifor | Posted 11.22.2009 | World
The safest births take place in well-stocked facilities with trained health workers. Providing this for all mothers must be our long-term goal. But in the meantime, something must be done - urgently.
Dr. Ana Langer | Posted 11.14.2009 | World
The number of maternal deaths has remained virtually unchanged for the past two decades. This is unconscionable, and it's why the Group of Eight leaders recently agreed that the world must do more.
CNN | Posted 08.23.2009 | World
The war in Afghanistan may no longer be forgotten but the true victims always are. Women and children in the landlocked Asian country have continuous...
Liya Kebede | Posted 08.21.2009 | World
Each mother who dies leaves behind a devastated family and weakened community that will eventually, somehow, affect each of us.
WideAngle | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
A roomful of pregnant women waiting for their prenatal care appointments at La General Hospital in Accra, Ghana, got a treat on Saturday when Presid...
World Vision | Posted 08.09.2009 | World
We know that when the G8 chooses to act it can make a real impact on child deaths. But this summit's failure on aid for Africa suggests a real low point.
Sia Nyama Koroma | Posted 08.03.2009 | World
Maternal mortality has sadly become the rule not the exception. But this can change. We have the knowledge and the skills to deliver -- we just need the political will and resources to support us.
Shaana Keller | Posted 08.02.2009 | Living
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.
Jodi Jacobson | Posted 07.19.2009 | World
Estimates of maternal morbidity vary from 16 to 50 million annually and include such profoundly disabling conditions as vesico-vaginal fistulae, a condition many consider a fate akin to living death
Tamar Abrams | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
Without adequate family planning programs in the developing world -- and here in the U.S. -- women will always be at unacceptably high risk of death, illness and disability.
Theresa Shaver | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living
Yeruknesh, Chidimma and Siti died for lack of basic health care taken for granted by all but the world's poorest and most vulnerable people.
UNFPA | Posted 06.09.2009 | World
This Mother's Day will be no different than any other day -- every minute a woman will die in pregnancy or childbirth. Nearly all of these women will ...
Wendi Deng Murdoch | Posted 06.09.2009 | Living
When I had my first child, I remember asking the doctor if I would live. My grandmother had died after giving birth to my mother -- in those days it was a fact of life in Xuzhou, where my family was from.
Thoraya Ahmed Obaid | Posted 06.08.2009 | Living
In the United States "dying in childbirth" occurs rarely. But for women in most poor countries, pregnancy and childbirth are the leading causes of death and disability.
Sarah Brown | Posted 06.05.2009 | Living
Ask the children. Ask them if they need their mothers. Effective development means recognizing that mums matter - and that means midwives matter too.
Donna E. Shalala | Posted 06.01.2009 | Living
Progress is being made to save the lives of mothers and newborns around the world. Still, every minute, a woman dies of complications in pregnancy and childbirth.
Sarah Brown | Posted 05.22.2009 | World
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.
Josh Ruxin | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books