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 [...]

According to The New Vision, and as we first alerted to yesterday on Facebook, Uganda has just determined that it cannot and will not allocate 15% of the national budget to health and maternal health care as African Union member states had pledged to do in 2003. Instead of the agreed to percentage, Uganda has [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

June 7-9, 2010: Saving Mothers’ Nichole Young-Lin was at the Women Deliver 2010 Conference where over 3,000 policymakers, nonprofit leaders, health care professionals and advocates gathered to discussed women’s health, education and empowerment. The conference opened with a keynote address from Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon. Throughout the day, notable figures such as Melinda Gates spoke on [...]

Saving Mothers participated in a conference call with ONE President David Lane and Christy Turlington Burns. More than 2000 people joined this conference call, which focused on women’s issues and empowerment. One of the major topics of conversation was maternal health issues in Africa and other developing countries. Below are some highlights of the call [...]

One of the major objectives included in the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals is to slash the global maternal mortality rate by 75 percent by 2015, but little progress has been made in this direction, according to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
To jump start efforts to improve conditions for women and expectant [...]