Sierra Leone has managed to reduce the number of women who die during and after childbirth by half in the last 2 years.
But the maternal mortality figures are still too high, and the government has called it a ‘national emergency’.
A new maternity centre is being built in the east of the country as part of the drive to improve the medical care of women a ... Show More
Jun 10
Focus on Africa: Russia's Wagner Group leaves Mali
Russia says the paramilitary group Wagner has accomplished its mission and has left Mali, although a Russian presence remains in the West African country, through the Africa Corps. So what did the Wagner Group achieve?Why has a separatist movement on the tiny, remote island of An ... Show More
33m 18s
Jul 2019
How we can improve maternal healthcare -- before, during and after pregnancy | Elizabeth Howell
Shocking, but true: the United States has the highest rate of deaths for new mothers of any developed country -- and 60 percent of them are preventable. With clarity and urgency, physician Elizabeth Howell explains the causes of maternal mortality and shares ways for hospitals an ... Show More
15m 18s
Jun 2024
Améliorer la santé maternelle et infantile au Cameroun
«Ne pas mourir en donnant la vie, c'est la devise de la sage-femme...». Dans cette chanson dont la mélodie clôt chaque causerie, les sages-femmes de la plus grande maternité de Yaoundé, le CASS, donnent le ton : au Cameroun, 438 femmes sur 100 000 meurent pendant la grossesse, l ... Show More
48m 30s
May 2023
The Lifesaving Power of … Paperwork?
In the final days of Marleny Mesa’s pregnancy, she could not shake the feeling that something was wrong. She could barely breathe, for one thing. For another, her anxiety and physical discomfort were approaching what felt like an unbearable peak. A week or so later, she delivered ... Show More
52m 54s
Oct 2019
Canaries in the Mine: Latham Thomas on Doula Work and Maternal Mortality Rates in the U.S.
We are a country built upon a foundation of slavery, and the truth is that that has affected every aspect of our culture. We live in an era of #blacklivesmatter and #metoo, spurred by the need to, once and for all, stare down the face of inequality, of institutionalized racism, s ... Show More
37m 16s
Jul 2023
The Black Maternal Mortality Crisis and Why It Remains an Issue
The U.S. has the worst maternal mortality rate of high-income countries globally, and the numbers have only grown. According to a new study published in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association – maternal death rates remain the highest among Black women, and those hi ... Show More
15m 24s
May 2024
The Evidence: Maternal Health in Malawi
The process of childbirth can be painful yet amazing, but at times and in some places, also very dangerous. Recorded in Malawi, East Africa, Claudia Hammond is joined by a panel of maternal health experts to figure out why it is that the equivalent of a large jumbo jet full of wo ... Show More
49m 27s