New Approaches to Maternal Mortality In Africa

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Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG5) aims to improve maternal health. Unlike other MDGs, few countries are on track to achieve even the first goal of MDG 5, namely, to reduce maternal mortality by 75%. Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from the highest regional maternal mortality rate (MMR) at 640 maternal…

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    New Approaches to Maternal Mortality In Africa: Melissa Lane: Summing Up

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2012 63:08


    Summing up Melissa Lane (Politics, Princeton) Discussion and Future Directions led by Melissa Lane (Politics, Princeton) Henrietta Moore (Social Anthropology, Cambridge) Tessa Mattholie (DfID) Closing Remarks Ashley Moffett (Reproductive Immunology, Cambridge) Megan Vaughan (African History, Cambridge)

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    New Approaches to Maternal Mortality In Africa: Panel 4: Ruth Prince and Vikki Chambers

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2012 36:55


    Panel 4 Chair Ruth Prince (Social Anthropology, Cambridge) Vikki Chambers (Overseas Development Institute) A comparative perspective of the institutional factors which shape maternal health outcomes in Malawi, Niger, Rwanda and Uganda

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    New Approaches to Maternal Mortality In Africa: Panel 3: Claire Wendland and Alemnesh Mirkese

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2012 89:13


    Panel 3 Chair Henrietta Moore (Social Anthropology, Cambridge) Claire Wendland (Medical Anthropology, Wisconsin) Explanations and uncertainties surrounding unsafe motherhood in Malawi Alemnesh Mirkese (Bergen, Norway)

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    New Approaches to Maternal Mortality In Africa: Panel 3: Henrietta Moore, Godfrey Mbaruku, Caroline Bledsoe and Rachel Chapman

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2012 94:38


    Panel 3 Chair Henrietta Moore (Social Anthropology, Cambridge) Godfrey Mbaruku (African Health, Tanzania) Health Systems/ policy towards reduction of maternal and neonatal deaths Caroline Bledsoe (Social Anthropology, Northwestern) 'A drug of many uses': Misoprostol and the language of ambiguity in the ‘management’ of pregnancy and labour in the US and West Africa Rachel Chapman (Social Anthropology, Washington) Maternal Mortality, HIV/AIDS and the New Counter-Geography of Survival in Central Mozambique

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    New Approaches to Maternal Mortality In Africa: Panel 2: Megan Vaughan

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2012 62:34


    Panel 2 Chair Melissa Lane (Politics, Princeton) Megan Vaughan (African History, Cambridge) Moral responsibility, accountability and maternal death in Central Africa: a historical approach

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    New Approaches to Maternal Mortality In Africa: Panel 2: Melissa Lane, Philip Steer, Ashley Moffett and Vincent De Brouwere

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2012 100:52


    Panel 2 Chair Melissa Lane (Politics, Princeton) Philip Steer (Obstetrics) What are the influences of maternal ethnic background on obstetric outcomes in London hospitals today? Ashley Moffett (Reproductive Immunology, Cambridge) How does the mother’s immune system affect the outcome of pregnancy? Vincent De Brouwere (Comparative Epidemiology, Antwerp) Why and when did maternal mortality decline in modern societies?

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    New Approaches to Maternal Mortality In Africa: Panel 1: Tessa Mattholie, Karen Rosenberg and Jonathan Wells

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2012 92:51


    Panel 1 Chair Tessa Mattholie (DfID) Karen Rosenberg (Biological Anthropology, Delaware) Why have humans reached this dangerous position in comparison with great apes? Jonathan Wells The obstetric dilemma: an ancient game of Russian Roulette, or another fine mess that agriculture got us into?

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    New Approaches to Maternal Mortality In Africa: Panel 1: Tessa Mattholie, Wendy Graham and Annettee Nakimuli

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2012 35:55


    Panel 1
 Chair Tessa Mattholie (DfID) Wendy Graham (Obstetric Epidemiology, Aberdeen) Maternal mortality: evidence gaps and measurement traps Annettee Nakimuli (Obstetrics, Makerere) What are the main causes of maternal mortality in Africa?

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    New Approaches to Maternal Mortality In Africa: Ashley Moffett and Megan Vaughan: Introduction

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2012 14:38


    Introduction Ashley Moffett (Reproductive Immunology, Cambridge) Megan Vaughan (African History, Cambridge)

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    New Approaches to Maternal Mortality In Africa: Sir Leszek Borysiewicz: Welcome

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2012 9:13


    Welcome Sir Leszek Borysiewicz (Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge)

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