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India's Democracy Struggles With Education and Sanitation
By Betwa Sharma - AOL NewsNEW YORK (Sept. 22) -- India has made significant progress over the past 10 years in providing basic education, health care and sanitation for its 1.2 billion people, but experts in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations development summit say those efforts still fall woefully short for much of its population -- in part because of the complex political mechanics of the world's largest democracy. "When you're dealing with the politics of India, you realize how difficult and complex it is to move the reform agenda forward," said Kapil Sibal, India's education minister, at a panel ...
Melinda Gates Can't Run From the Abortion Controversy
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyYou might think that donating $1.5 billion to global maternal and infant health would beget global cheering. Perhaps a small island named after you. Children given your name. Songs sung in your honor. But nothing is so easy and apolitical. Nothing, especially, in the world of women's health. Last week, Melinda Gates promised that the Gates Foundation -- known for its work on vaccines, HIV/AIDs and malaria -- would be striding off into the future with a separate but related arm of work focusing on reducing maternal and infant mortality -- two of the Millennium Development Goals. Pledging ...
Melinda Gates on 350,000 Childbirth Deaths: 'We Can Prevent Most'
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyAshley Judd. Former President Michelle Bachelet of Chile. Former Prime Minister Helen Clark of New Zealand. Former Irish President and former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson. Journalist Christiane Amanpour. Model Christy Turlington. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. Singer Annie Lennox. Philanthropist Melinda Gates. All in Washington to discuss one thing: No woman should die giving life. And yet they are dying, in droves. Some 350,000 women lose their lives each year giving birth or through complications of childbearing. It's a number that the 3,500 attendees, from ...
The Dangers of Childbirth in Southern Mexico
By Samuel Loewenberg - AOL NewsSAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (April 20) -- Among dozens of other brightly dressed women, Eugenia Urbina has been waiting on the stairs of the main hospital in this central Chiapas town for nearly two hours. Nine months pregnant with her third child, the 24-year-old seeks prenatal care. The long wait makes her worry that when the time comes to give birth, the hospital will not have room for her. "It happens a lot," Urbina said, and if it does, she'll have to pay more than she can afford to drive around in a taxi for up to an hour to find a clinic that can take her. It's not just a ...
Childbirth Deaths Are Falling Worldwide, but Not in the U.S.
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyLast week saw the release of a game-changing report on the state of maternal mortality (that is, women dying from complications related to pregnancy). According to the report, published in the medical journal The Lancet (and financed by the Gates Foundation) in the last 20 years, rates of death for pregnant women have, in large part, fallen around the globe. As The New York Times reports, "the study cited a number of reasons for the improvement: lower pregnancy rates in some countries; higher income, which improves nutrition and access to health care; more education for women; and the ...
Maternal Death Studies Spark Public Health Debate
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(April 14) -- Editors of a prestigious medical journal and experts at the United Nations are clashing over global maternal death rates, with the dispute revealing how politics can play into public health issues. On Monday, researchers at the University of Washington published surprising findings in The Lancet medical journal, concluding that maternal deaths worldwide have dropped 35 percent in the last three decades, going from 526,300 in 1980 to 342,900 in 2008. The team, led by Dr. Christopher Murray at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, used death records, census ...
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