Improving Maternal Health

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 29^th, 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

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/livingproofproject/Pages/impatient-optimists-speech-maternal-newborn-health.aspx

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Speech (January 8^th, 2010) on the
15th Anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development

http://www.icpd2015.org/

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

http://video.unfpa.org/

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

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22241448~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html

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

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