[afro-nets] Lancet: Women Deliver

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Women Deliver

The Lancet - Published May 17, 2013

Website: http://bit.ly/1098JBc

“….In recent years, two important changes in maternal health have taken place worldwide: a reduction in global maternal mortality, and an increase in the proportion of childbirths occurring in health facilities. Although substantial progress has been made, the fifth Millennium Development Goal to reduce the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters before 2015 will be missed.

Against this backdrop, The Lancet publishes a special themed issue to coincide with the third Women Deliver conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on May 28–30, 2013. <http://bit.ly/10VM4K7&gt; Women Deliver brings together voices from around the world to generate political commitment and resource investments to improve the health and well-being of girls and women and achieve universal access to reproductive health.

The studies published in The Lancet's themed issue use different methods to show the multidimensional nature of reproductive health and the influence of social determinants and health systems….”

Comments

Shared commitment to women's health abroad and at home - Kathleen Sebelius

Maternal health in Malaysia: progress and potential - Raj Karim, Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali

Maternal health: a missed opportunity for development - Karen A Grepin, Jeni Klugman

Participatory women's groups: ready for prime time? - Cesar G Victoria, Fernando C Barros

Care assessment's difficult relation with maternal mortality - Alexandre Dumont, Marie-Hélène Bouvier-Colle

Meeting the unmet need for family planning: now is the time - Herbert B Peterson, Gary L Darmstadt, John Bongaarts

Maternal deaths and HIV treatment in sub-Saharan Africa - Landon Myer

Aid for reproductive health: progress and challenges - Preeti Patel, Bayard Roberts

Obstetric fistula: ending the health and human rights tragedy - Babatunde Osotimehin

Articles

Effect of women's groups and volunteer peer counselling on rates of mortality, morbidity, and health behaviours in mothers and children in rural Malawi (MaiMwana): a factorial, cluster-randomised controlled trial
http://bit.ly/19EN2tz

Sonia Lewycka, Charles Mwansambo, Mikey Rosato, Peter Kazembe, Tambosi Phiri, Andrew Mganga, Hilda Chapota, Florida Malamba, Esther Kainja, Marie-Louise Newell, Giulia Greco, Anni-Maria Pulkki-Brännström, Jolene Skordis-Worrall, Stefania Vergnano, David Osrin, Anthony Costello

Women's groups practising participatory learning and action to improve maternal and newborn health in low-resource settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis
http://bit.ly/1862lg0

Audrey Prost, Tim Colbourn, Nadine Seward, Kishwar Azad, Arri Coomarasamy, Andrew Copas, Tanja A J Houweling, Edward Fottrell, Abdul Kuddus, Sonia Lewycka, Christine MacArthur, Dharma Manandhar, Joanna Morrison, Charles Mwansambo Nirmala Nair, Bejoy Nambiar, David Osrin, Christina Pagel, Tambosi Phiri, Anni-Maria Pulkki-BrännstrÖm, Mikey Rosato, Jolene Skordis-Worrall, Naomi Saville, Neena Shah More, Bhim Shrestha, Prasanta Tripathy, Amie Wilson, Anthony Costello

Moving beyond essential interventions for reduction of maternal mortality (the WHO Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health): a cross-sectional study
http://bit.ly/12GVgyX

João Paulo Souza, Ahmet Metin Gülmezoglu, Joshua Vogel, Guillermo Carroli, Pisake Lumbiganon, Zahida Qureshi, Maria José Costa, Bukola Fawole, Yvonne Mugerwa, Idi Nafiou, Isilda Neves, Jean-José Wolomby-Molondo, Hoang Thi Bang, Kannitha Cheang, Kang Chuyun, Kapila Jayaratne, Chandani Anoma Jayathilaka, Syeda Batool Mazhar, Rintaro Mori, Mir Lais Mustafa, Laxmi Raj Pathak, Deepthi Perera, Tung Rathavy, Zenaida Recidoro, Malabika Roy, Pang Ruyan, Naveen Shrestha, Surasak Taneepanichsku, Nguyen Viet Tien, Togoobaatar Ganchimeg, Mira Wehbe, Buyanjargal Yadamsuren, Wang Yan, Khalid Yunis, Vicente Bataglia, José Guilherme Cecatti, Bernardo Hernandez-Prado, Juan Manuel Nardin, Alberto Narváez, Eduardo Ortiz-Panozo, Ricardo érez-Cuevas, Eliette Valladares, Nelly Zavaleta, Anthony Armson, Caroline Crowther, Carol Hogue, Gunilla Lindmark, Suneeta Mittal, Robert Pattinson, Mary Ellen Stanton, Liana Campodonico, Cristina Cuesta, Daniel Giordano, Nirun Intarut, Malinee Laopaiboon, Rajiv Bahl, Jose Martines, Matthews Mathai, Mario Merialdi, Lale Say

Trends in contraceptive need and use in developing countries in 2003, 2008, and 2012: an analysis of national surveys

Jacqueline E Darroch, Susheela Singh

http://bit.ly/111RCgj

Effect of HIV infection on pregnancy-related mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: secondary analyses of pooled community-based data from the network for Analysing Longitudinal Population-based HIV/AIDS data on Africa (ALPHA)

Basia Zaba, Clara Calvert, Milly Marston, Raphael Isingo, Jessica Nakiyingi-Miiro, Tom Lutalo, Amelia Crampin, Laura Robertson, Kobus Herbst, Marie-Louise Newell, Jim Todd, Peter Byass, Ties Boerma, Carine Ronsmans

http://bit.ly/10y61or

Reproductive health priorities: evidence from a resource tracking analysis of official development assistance in 2009 and 2010

Justine Hsu, Peter Berman, Anne Mills
http://bit.ly/15TluV7

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