UNFPA brings maternal mortality back on the global agenda


The United Nations Population Fund is currently holding a global conference of health ministers from around the world to highlight the plight of mothers during pregnancy and child births. This millenium development Goal 5 is stuck,with little changes happenning to reduce the deaths. HEPS-Uganda, recently launched a Ugandan campain to promote safe motherhood and avail resources necessary for the health serctor at a meeting at Tick Hotel in Kampala. UHSPA-Uganda is happy to associate its self with this noble cause.
we use the media to promote safe mother hood. Click these links to what is so far published
for a quick follow up of the Addis Conference, follow these links.

Radio 4 Woman's Hour -Maternal Mortality Rates
One of the Millennium Development Goals (built on agreements made at UN conferences in the 1990s) is to reduce maternal mortality by 75% by 2015.
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/04/2009_43_mon.shtml
BBC World Service - News - Maternal mortality: why so many mothers die giving birth
The meeting, organised by the United Nations Population Fund, aims to harness political will and money to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality by two-thirds by 2015.
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservic.../091026_maternal_mortality_ap.shtml
News - Health - Call to act on maternal mortality . Last updated: 26 Oct 2009
Health ministers from around the world say swift action must be taken to reduce global maternal mortality rates.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8327144.stm
News - Africa - Tackling Ethiopia's maternal health crisis . Last updated: 26 Oct 2009
As a UN conference on maternal health issues takes place in the Ethiopian capital, the BBC's Pascale Harter meets women being treated for birth-related injuries..
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8326436.stm
Programmes - Sunday AM - International Aid
But I have to say I've been to Iraq four times in the last two and a half years and it's quite humbling when you meet politicians and others who put their lives on the line to do what.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/sunday_am/6163046.stm
News - Americas - US exports anti-abortion policy . Last updated: 28 Jun 2003
Hundreds of women's health organisations in the poorest nations of the world - places where maternal mortality and infant death are high - faced a tough choice.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3028820.stm
Podcasts - Woman's Hour: News, Politics, Culture
And as the UN Population Fund holds a high level maternal health meeting in Adis Ababa, Sheila asks what can be learnt from countries that have reduced their maternal mortality rates?
www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/whnews
Programmes - Panorama - Programme Transcript
GRACE KODINO This is not an environment to decrease the rate of maternal deaths. And this really helps to save lives, and this would really help to reduce the maternal mortality.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/4626963.stm
News - World - Improving health in fragile states . Last updated: 24 Sep 2008
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, maternal mortality doubled during the recent conflict, leaving its residents with no hope of hitting the target to reduce deaths in childbirth by a third by 2015.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7632361.stm

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