Despite lagging in movement towards securing sexual and reproductive health care, targeting syphilis, and monitoring mothers and their babies in the postpartum period, Uruguay has done much to reduce the maternal mortality rate, a major aspect of the fifth Millennium Development Goal. As alerted to by the IPS newswire the country has made significant progress [...]

As reported by The News International, Pakistan has asked for $78 million in financial support to enable Pakistani women to increase the time between pregnancies. Makhdoom Shahabuddin, Pakistani Health Minister, explained to a delegation of U.S. governmental officials that this birth spacing endeavor is critical for meeting the Millennium Development Goal to reduce the maternal [...]

The IPS News wire discusses the multitude of ways mothers in Brazil identify meaningfully with pregnancy, labor, and motherhood depending on cultural expectations and traditional considerations. Attending importantly to the ways that there is never a single way of being a mother, the state National Health Foundation’s (FUNASA) Department of Indigenous Health works to respect [...]

According to The Washington Post, the promise of monetary assistance is the newest social motivator to reduce India’s high maternal mortality rate. With one of the worlds worst rates of pregnancy related death, India is confronting the tensions between an ever growing economy and the lack of health related services available to many citizens. With [...]

The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics reported today that Pastor Charles and Mai Olivia Charamba have composed a song to assist the spread of information regarding maternal mortality rates in Africa. The aim of this musical collaboration is to help reduce the too high rate and with the assistance of the United Nations Population [...]

The Unites Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to secure community health and environmental rights and access have not been achieved throughout much of East and Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, new UN reports indicate. Proclaiming the moves made by many nations to be “unacceptable” the UN and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) now consider the [...]

In the six months following the disastrous 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti, maternal and neonatal health services have largely been secured again for many of the displaced women and girls throughout the nation. Working alongside the UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, the Haitian government has met the variety of health needs with mobile and [...]

The New York Times just ran an interesting article about how the rising numbers of obese pregnant women are presenting new health and resource challenges, and even leading to entirely preventable maternal deaths, even in the United States.
According to the piece, one in five pregnant women are technically obese. The [...]

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The United States is not a great place to be a mother, according to this year’s annual State of the World’s Mothers report put out by nonprofit Save the Children. We came in 28th place out 160 ranked countries, far below leaders Norway and Australia, and behind almost all of Western [...]