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In early July, I attended, on behalf of the Maternal Health Task Force, the initial two-day consultation meeting on the development of a safe birth “checklist” co-organised by the WHO Patient Safety team in Geneva, Switzerland. (For more information regarding the meeting, read below.) Over a very hot two days, more than 60 experts in … Continue reading “WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Meeting”
A new study by the Guttmacher Institute and the International Institute for Population Sciences highlights the continuing problem of maternal mortality in India, the country with the highest annual number of maternal deaths in the world. Even though the proportion of women receiving delivery care increased by one-third between 1993 and 2006, half of all … Continue reading “Article of the week”
MBBS, MPH, MRCGP, FFPHM, FRCOG, D.Sc. Gwyneth is widely known and respected by the maternal and newborn health community, both in the UK and more widely, and holds several roles in promoting global safer motherhood and newborn health. She is the clinical leader for international maternal health and policy in the Department of Health, London, … Continue reading “Gwyneth Lewis's Bio”
