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Maternal Mortality : Fighting for a Future

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    Interested in making a real difference.

    Want to help? Here are 5 easy suggestions of how to get involved:

    1.Spread the word Ask your friends to become our friends and make our site one of your favourites, help widen our community and share the story.

    2.Watch the film Take the time to watch both of our films on this site which tackle the subject of maternal mortality and share their message.

    3.Talk to our friends Visit the sites of our partners such as the White Ribbon Alliance and Family Care International (listed in our "I'd like to meet" section.)

    4.Share the facts Print out and forward the key facts outlined on this site, promote change through raising awareness.

    5.Post your ideas and comments Contact us with your comments and thoughts, post your ideas on the site to share with our community. The more we talk, the greater our power.

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  • Maternal Mortality : Fi…

    Jan 25 2008 5:47 PM

    To make best use of this website, please navigate around the various pages to find out more.


    Extra facts and figures can all be found in our blog and you can use the links on this home page to visit the websites of our friends and partners, who are all working toward righting this wrong.


    We have uploaded all the videos and show reels from the dinner in the video section and would like you all to use this site to post your comments and discuss this issue online.


    And finally we would like you to please use this site to contact us to register your interest, get involved and find out more.
  • Maternal Mortality : Fi…

    Jan 24 2008 5:42 PM

    Thank you for taking that extra step and visiting this Davos dinner MySpace community.


    We hope this gives you an opportunity to find out a bit more about what you heard over dinner and make the connections possible to help change this absolute travesty of modern times.

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On the 25th January 2008, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, a group of powerful and influential women met to talk about some of the key issues facing women globally today.

At the fore of these issues, many identified by the Millennium Development Goals set out at the G7 summit, were the devastating statistics surrounding maternal mortality.

Mothers, the very heart of every social network, are dying. Daily. Minute-by-minute.

This is not due to a lack of scientific or healthcare knowledge but purely a matter of poor economics and lack of resource. Something can be done but needs strong support and conviction to truly change the future.

What was shared at this dinner were the facts and the statistics behind maternal mortality, and also the hope for the future.

On this site, find out more about what went on during the meal, the real truth behind maternal mortality and find out how you can help in the fight to make a difference.

The Facts:

1. 536,000 women a year die through pregnancy or birth related complications.

2. In the most developed countries, 1 in 48,000 mothers die in childbirth.

3. In the poorest parts of Africa, 1 in 7 mothers die in childbirth.

4. Every minute around the world 1 woman dies due to pregnancy related complications

5. The risk of death in children under five is doubled if their mothers die in childbirth

6. The social cost of maternal and newborn mortality is US$15bn per year, yet the deaths could be prevented by spending around US$4-6bn

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Who I'd like to meet:

UNFPA
http://www.unfpa.org/mothers/


WHITE RIBBON ALLIANCE

The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood is an international coalition of individuals and organizations formed to promote increased public awareness of the need to make pregnancy and childbirth safe for all women and newborns in the developing, as well as, developed countries.


http://www.whiteribbonalliance.org/
myspace: http://www.myspace.com/whiteribbonalliance


FAMILY CARE INTERNATIONAL
http://www.familycareintl.org/en/home

ANNIE LENNOX SING
http://www.annielennoxsing.com