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February 4, 2010
Activist
Richard Lord
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This week, we've been following stories regarding maternal mortality in the news.

Alarming Increase in Maternal Mortality Rate

Lilian Kim

ABC: KGO-TV

Women across California are dying during childbirth in alarming numbers. Three times as many expectant mothers have died in just the past decade. But why? That's the question California Watch, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting, is asking.

The number of deaths is relatively small, but still the spike in the maternal death rate is alarming to those in public health. In fact, it is more dangerous to give birth in California than it is in Kuwait or Bosnia.

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Finance Abortion, Contraception: Ignatieff

Christina Spencer

The Calgary Sun 

OTTAWA — Canada’s renewed focus on supporting maternal and child health internationally should include assistance to women who want abortions, Michael Ignatieff said Tuesday.

Sketching out what foreign aid could look like under a Liberal government, the Grit leader said he intended to “lay down a marker” to Prime Minister Stephen Harper about women’s reproductive options, including contraception and abortion, as the prime minister sets the agenda for a G8 leaders’ meeting in Canada in June.

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FG Restates Plan to Tackle Maternal Mortality

This Day Online

The Federal Government has expressed its readiness to reduce rate of maternal mortality in the country just as the Kaduna State government said that it was making concerted efforts at ensuring availability of trained manpower towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).

Minister of Health, Prof Babatunde Oshotimehin, said in Zaria yesterday that government was concerned about the high rate of maternal mortality in the country, adding that it was in this regard that the government introduced the Midwife Service Scheme.

The minister was represented by the Chief Medical Director of Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Prof. Abdulmumin Rafindadi at the dissemination meeting of the operations research on community based initiative for the prevention of post-partum hemorrhage in home birth using misoprostol drug.

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