Archive: Sep 2010

White Ribbon Alliance presents the 1st Annual Women Inspiration & Enterprise (WIE) symposium which will be held next Monday, September 20th 2010 in New York City, NY. The symposium coincides with the Clinton Global Initiative and the UN General…

The Women’s Health and Empowerment Center of Expertise (one of three Centers in the University of California Global Health Institute) is working to develop a multidisciplinary book on women’s health and empowerment. The book…

On September 20th from 9:00am – 9:30am in Times Square, Amnesty International will be displaying a “clock” which will count the women who die every minute as a result of complications during child birth/pregnancy.  The billboard…

By: K G Venkateswaran, Deputy Director, Planning for Improving Maternal and Neonatal Health in Northern India Project, IntraHealth International, Inc. A longer version of this blog was originally posted on the IntraHealth International Global Health…

By: Maria M. Pawlowska, Cambridge Gates Scholar According to the latest WHO Countdown report, post-partum haemorrhage (PPH) is responsible for over a third of maternal deaths worldwide. During a session at the Global Maternal Health Conference last week,…

By: Kate Mitchell, Maternal Health Task Force Ann Blanc, Director of the Maternal Health Task Force, welcomed attendees of the Global Maternal Health Conference to the third and final day of the conference. She recalled the Safe Motherhood Conference…

By: Janna Oberdorf, Communications Manager, Women Deliver Every year, an estimated 20 million unsafe abortions take place. And of all maternal deaths, unsafe abortion accounts for 13%. Imagine if we could change that. Imagine if we could make a…

By: Saumya Ramarao, Senior Associate, Population Council Written by Saumya RamaRao, Population Council It is Day 2 at the Global Maternal Health Conference and the energy level has revved up as all participants roll up their sleeves to get down to…