Daily Life,Health & Mortality,Keep A Mother Alive,Maternal & Child Mortality 31 May 2011

If you have ever been pregnant then you will understand the trials and tribulations I am about to write. When you first find out you have a life growing inside of you, you feel scared. Scared about the type of mother you will be and maybe, “how in the world …

 Keep A Mother Alive,Main Content,Maternal & Child Mortality 28 January 2011

Every minute a woman dies from complications in childbirth, which is about 529,000 women each year and the majority of them are in developing countries.
A woman in sub-Saharan Africa has a 1 in 16 chance of dying during pregnancy or childbirth, compared to a 1 in 4,000 risk in a …

 Maternal & Child Mortality,Medical & Health Programs 17 May 2009

Less than $50,000 has drastically reduced maternal deaths for a community of over 30,000 people. (Photo by Vivian Glyck)
My hero, New York Times op-ed writer Nick Kristof, has again, told it like it really is. While traveling in Sierra Leone this week, he stopped at a rural hospital and wrote, …

 Malaria,Maternal & Child Mortality 23 April 2009

An I.V. had to be inserted into her head because all of her other veins were collapsed from dehydration.
As I stood watching helplessly, all I could think of was:
“What would I do if this was my child?”
One evening last month when I was in Uganda, I met a beautiful little …