The BBC has produced a new multi-series documentary called “Survival” that includes a 45-minute look at maternal health in Bangladesh. To capture the true story, the filmmakers traveled to a remote area in the North East of Bangladesh and filmed the labor of a young woman, Morjina, in her small hut with the aid of [...]
Last week Bono spoke at the California Women’s Conference, and he passed along some of these stats about women in Africa:
-Nearly two-thirds of adults with HIV in Africa are women. Young women (age 15 to 24) in South Africa accounted for around 90% of new HIV infections in 2007.
-In Africa, the likelihood of a woman [...]
More than 75 religious leaders and representatives of Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jewish, Christian and Muslim faith-based organizations formed a global interfaith network to strengthen cooperation against the global issues of maternal death, AIDS, and poverty.
“We have learned that while we come from different faiths, different regions and different experiences,” said Thoraya Obaid, executive director of UNFPA. [...]
As many of you know, Dr. Allan Rosenfield passed away last week. As the former dean of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and a pioneer in the field of maternal health, family planning, and HIV/AIDS, his death is being mourned by those who knew him and knew his work.
Allan Rosenfield cared deeply and passionately [...]
I just watched the trailer for this moving documentary, A Powerful Noise. The film profiles three different women: Hanh, an HIV-positive widow in Vietnam; Nada, a survivor of the Bosnian war; and Jacqueline, who works the slums of Bamako, Mali.
[The film] takes you inside the lives of these women to witness their daily challenges and their [...]
Launched by UNIFEM in November 2007, the Say NO campaign hopes to demonstrate that ending violence against women has broad-based support from all parts of society. To date, more than 300,000 individuals worldwide have signed on (including Nicole Kidman), as well as more than 40 governments and over 190 civil society organizations. The campaign aims [...]
One year ago, on October 18-20, nearly 2,000 participants from 115 countries came together to call for increased political will and investment in maternal health. We all agreed: Invest in women – it pays! Activists, global health organizations, governments, and non-governmental groups gathered at this international conference in London to demand action to save the [...]
Judith F. Helzner wrote a blog post on RH Reality Check all about the pillars of maternal health that are necessary to support a sustained drop in pregnancy-related deaths. To learn more about the pillars, click here. As Helzner says,
These interventions can be funded and introduced without overhauling health systems. What’s missing is the political [...]
The Campaign to End Fistula, led by UNFPA, has just announced that they’ll quadruple in size and work in 45 countries (up from 12). There are at least 2 million women in Africa, Asia and the Arab region living with obstetric fistula and 50,000 to 100,000 new cases developing each year. While obstetric fistula is [...]
Today, October 15, is Blog Action Day. And here at Women Deliver, we’re psyched to get involved and be a part of this amazing movement. Today, thousands of bloggers will unite to discuss a single issue – poverty. The aim is to raise awareness, initiate action and to shake the web! And poverty is something [...]
