International Agency Efforts to Get Safe Motherhood onto the Agenda

Yet advocacy for maternal health by the UN and other international agencies efforts has been relatively ineffectual because the messages have not always been ...

Request PDF | On Jan 1, 2000, Carla AbouZahr published Cautious Champions: International Agency Efforts to Get Safe Motherhood onto the Agenda | Find, ...

The Safe Motherhood Initiative and beyond - PMC

In 2007, the Safe Motherhood Initiative is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Many countries have been able to improve the health and well-being of mothers ...

Thirty Years of the Safe Motherhood Initiative: Celebrating Progress ...

Launched in 1987 at the Safe Motherhood Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, the Initiative aimed to reduce maternal mortality by 50% by 2000. The ...

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION Making pregnancy safer

to keep safe motherhood high on national health and development agendas. 12. WHO will commence work in 10 countries in all regions1 in the ...

Mother-Baby Package: Implementing safe motherhood in countries

Designed for use in national programmes in the developing world, the package consists of 18 simple interventions that have often their capacity to reduce ...

Safe Motherhood Strategies : a Review of the Evidence

As early as the International Conference on. Population and Development (ICPD) ... Fifteen years after the Safe Motherhood Initiative was launched we have.

Agenda setting for maternal survival: the power of global health ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) began to study the global maternal mortality problem systematically in the early 1980s, and with the United ...

1998 'YEAR OF SAFE MOTHERHOOD'; UNFPA, FIVE OTHER ...

-- International aid agencies are urged to provide overseas assistance to programmes that promote maternal care as an essential component of ...

International Women's Day 2017: Thirty Years of the Safe ...

The Safe Motherhood Conference provided an ideal opportunity to turn that momentum into action, and thus, the Safe Motherhood Initiative was ...

Safe Motherhood: a brief history of the global movement 1947–2002

In 1996, the SMI Inter-Agency Group embarked upon a 2 year effort to bring maternal health to a wider audience and to a higher level of decision-makers. The ...

Maternal and Child Health | Global Health | U.S. Agency for ... - USAID

Today, diseases that once claimed countless young lives are being prevented, and women and mothers are experiencing safer pregnancies and childbirth, making ...

The safe motherhood action agenda - Givewell

influence on women's lives and their ability to make their own decisions and choices. Ms. Rebecca Cook, an international human rights lawyer, argued that ...

Setting the global health agenda: The influence of advocates and ...

WHO, World Bank and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) organized the first international Safe Motherhood Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, and launched the ...

Safe Motherhood —from Advocacy to Action - IMF eLibrary

In 1987, international and regional agencies and national governments launched the global Safe Motherhood Initiative, with the goal of reducing maternal ...

The safe motherhood action agenda : priorities for the next decade

The global Safe Motherhood Initiative was launched at an international conference held in Nairobi, in 1987. Its aim was to draw attention to the dimensions ...

Safe maternity - International Labour Organization

Efforts to accelerate progress on MDG 5 have focused on increasing women's access to skilled at- tendance during childbirth and to emergency ob- stetric ...

Generation of political priority for global health initiatives - The Lancet

39. AbouZahr, C. Cautious champions: international agency efforts to get safe motherhood onto the agenda. Stud Health Serv Organ Pol. 2001; 17 ...

(PDF) Safe motherhood initiative: what is next? - ResearchGate

Abstract. When in 1987, the Safe motherhood initiative was launched, the aim was to reduce global maternal mortality by half by the year 2000.

Supporting Mothers and Families: A Global Conversation on ...

Train and resource more midwives in the maternal health workforce. Update the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist to include specific mental-health ...