PHA-Exchange> Maternal Deaths High in Developing Countries (2)

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From: "James Tumwine" <jtumwine at imul.com>

> Our countries need to be sensitized on these countless scandalous 
> tragic haemorrhages on probably the most critical human resource: 
> women. It would appear to me that the issues and possible ap-
> proaches to the problem have been well articulated by many re-
> searchers and practitioners in the area. What is needed is a com-
> mitment by all concerned to address the issues in a practical, 
> concerted and consistent way.
>  
> In the short term our countries need to address urgently the 
> crumbling health infrastructure and deal with the day today 
> causes of these needless scandalous deaths. In the medium and 
> long term we need to give our girl children the biggest VACCINE 
> against this scourge: that is FREE education up to at least the 
> 10th grade! And we need to SELL the information and tested, evi-
> dence-based ideas to our communities and decision-makers includ-
> ing our ministers of health, finance, members of parliament and 
> women activists. This is not my specialty but I hope this can 
> generate some interesting debate. 
>  
> Best regards,
> James K Tumwine
> James K Tumwine is founder editor of African Health Sciences
> Makereres University Faculty of Medicine's peer reviewed journal 
> on health and development recently indexed on MEDLINE.