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Maternal Health – Lessons Learned

Progress for children : a report card on maternal mortality

| 2008
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: United nations children's fund (UNICEF)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: maternal welfare, mortality
This report measures the world’s performance on maternal health, with a particular focus on maternal mortality. It details progress in maternal health and highlights areas where improvements are needed.

Tajikistan

| 2008
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Tajik family planning alliance (TFPA)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: maternal and child health, mortality, maternal welfare, kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan, tajikistan
Project outline is services to the people: safe motherhood and promotion of SRHR in rural areas of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Afghanistan's high maternal mortality rate

| 2008
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: YouTube
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: mortality, maternal welfare, afghanistan
Afghanistan had the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world after Sierra Leone. One in every 9 Afghan women die during or shortly after giving birth, this makes it a death every 21 minutes. This audiovisual reports from a hospital in Nangarhar Province, east of the capital Kabul.

Mobilizing married youth in Nepal to improve reproductive health : the reproductive health for married adolescent couples project, Nepal, 2005-2007

| 2008
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: ACQUIRE project (Access, quality, and use in reproductive health)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: reproductive health, nepal
The project utilized an ecological model to improve health outcomes for married adolescents in target districts and documents lessons learned and recommendations.

ESD's approach to community-based family planning

| 2008
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Extending service delivery (ESD) project
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: family planning, reproductive health
The Extending Service Delivery Project (ESD) takes a comprehensive approach to providing family-centered reproductive health and family planning (RH/FP) services at the community level that involves facility based providers, community outreach workers and community members themselves.
 

About this portal

This information portal provides access to selected free, full-text electronic documents. It shares examples of practical projects and initiatives that have been undertaken to contribute to Millennium Development Goal 5: Improving maternal health, particularly in developing countries. Find your resources in the database.