Improving Maternal Health
By maintaining the awareness for improving maternal healthcare, the Global Health Issues Team has provided a recommended list of videos for viewing. If the link does direct you to the web site, please copy and paste.
List of Videos: (Retrieved on January 29th, 2010 from)
Melinda Gates
Improving health for mothers and newborns
October 27, 2009
Melinda Gates on Child Mortality, Providing Health Care for Mothers and Newborns, and One Mother's Life-Changing Experience
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Speech (January 8th, 2010) on the
15th Anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development
Opinion: Kristoff Nicholas
The New York Times
http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/opinion/nicholas-d-kristof/1194811622305/index.html
View his list of videos, for example: Saving West African Moms, Saving Lives with Family Planning, Mothers at Risk, A Struggle to Survive, and many more.
United Nations
http://www.un.org/webcast/SE2009.html
Special Event: September 23, 2009
Special Event: Innovative International Financing for Health event, hosted by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Please review archived video (English) for 1 hour and 22 minutes.
Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 4 minutes ]
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 1 hour and 22 minutes ]
United Nations
http://www.un.org/webcast/SE2009.html
Special Event: June 15, 2009
Special Event: Launch of the 2009 Report on the Global Campaign for the Health MDGs.
Please review archived video (English) for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 1 hour and 15 minutes ]
Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
[Webcast: Archived Video - 5 minutes ]
Statement by Deputy Secretary-General Asha‑Rose Migiro
[Webcast: Archived Video - 7 minutes ]
White Ribbon Alliance
For safe motherhood
http://www.whiteribbonalliance.org/resources.cfm?a0=video
UNFPA
Obstetrics Fistula
La Chirurgie De l'Espior [Surgery of Hope]
Posted November 2009
Through the stories of five young women from Mauritania, this moving film shows the overwhelming challenges obstetric fistula survivors have to endure in their journey back to their lives, health and dignity. Or view any of the 39 videos that are posted on the UNFPA web site.
The World Bank
Slideshow: Nepal – Maternal Health
WHO
Making Pregnancy Safer
http://www.who.int/making_pregnancy_safer/multimedia/en/
Engender Health
Maternal Health Team
http://www.maternalhealthtaskforce.org/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=82
submitted by
Global Health Issues Team
