3225.0 Maternal Mortality: The Shame of the World

Monday, November 5, 2007: 12:30 PM
Oral
Twenty years after the Safe Motherhood Initiative was launched more women are dying from pregnancy-related causes than in 1987. Why has the world allowed this problem to worsen while donating increasing sums on other world health problems? What new interventions, programs and policies have developed to increase our ability to save more women's lives?
Session Objectives: 1. Review the reasons why maternal mortality remains an unsolved problem in the world 2. Identify practices and policies to help prevent maternal deaths 3. Learn from projects what has worked to decrease maternal deaths in resource poor settings
Organizer:
Donna Barry, NP MPH
Moderator:
Ana Langer, MD
Panelists:
Patsy Bailey, PhD , Alicia Yamin, JD MPH , Maxi Raymonville, MD and Ann Starrs

12:30 PM
Safe Motherhood: Twenty Years and Counting
Ann Starrs
        
12:50 PM
Quick Wins, Quick Fixes - or Are They?
Patsy Bailey, PhD
        
1:10 PM
Maternal Mortality in Central Haiti: Structural Solutions
Maxi Raymonville, MD
        
1:30 PM
Deadly Delays, Systemic Injustice
Alicia Yamin, JD MPH
           

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Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Women's Caucus, Socialist Caucus, Maternal and Child Health, Community Health Workers SPIG

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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