Archive: Thu Feb 2015

On the Far Reaching Consequences of Maternal Mortality

“Remedies can’t be tied to a broken system.” Worldwide, about 290,000 women die each year from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. From a numerical perspective, this figure appears to denote a situation less urgent than that…

It's Time to Take Maternal Mortality in Kenya Seriously

By Clara Burbano- Herrera “The persistently high level of maternal mortality in Kenya in the new millennium should be understood as a failure by state authorities to comply with the commitments they made…” Maternal mortality…
Clara Burbano-Herrera