Maternal Mortality : Fighting for a Future
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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.Heroes
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Mothers, the very heart of every social network, are dying. Daily. Minute-by-minute.
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:
UNFPAhttp://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
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Jan 25 2008 5:47 PM
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.
Jan 24 2008 5:42 PM
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.