Lecture Series: Women and Their Families—Health Services for Pregnancy and Child Care

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Session 1: Strategies to Reduce Maternal Mortality Rates

November 18, 2009 (Wed) 6:00-8:00pm (Japan Standard Time)

Kitasato University School of Nursing, World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Making Pregnancy Safer, and Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) will jointly host a series of video conferences on safe motherhood and reproductive health issues from November 2009 through spring 2010.

In the first session, Dr. Monir Islam, Director of the World Health Organization’s Department of Making Pregnancy Safer (MPS), will address issues on strategies for reducing maternal mortality rates.

Date and Time (JST):

November 18, 2009 (Wed) 6:00-8:00pm

Venue:

Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC)
10F, Fukoku Seimei Building, 2-2-2 Uchisaiwai-cho,
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

Lecturer:

Dr. Monir Islam
MD, Master of Public Health (MPH), Fellow, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG)
Director, Department of Making Pregnancy Safer (MPS), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Lecture Introduction:

“Two decades have passed since the global community agreed in Nairobi to the Safe Motherhood Initiative to reduce maternal deaths. However, every year 536,000 pregnant women are dying.

There is no ambiguity about why most of these women are dying. These tragedies are avoidable if women have timely access to quality essential obstetric and emergency care.

Rural and poor women are mostly excluded from accessing skilled and emergency care.
Quality facility-based care is the best option to reduce maternal mortality. Scaling up essential interventions and services—particularly for those who are excluded—is a substantial and challenging undertaking.

We need to challenge our policy makers and program managers to refocus program content; to shift focus from development of new technologies towards development of viable organizational strategies to provide access to essential and emergency obstetric care 24 hours a day 7 days a week, and account for every birth and every death.”
    —Dr. Monir Islam, WHO Department of Making Pregnancy Safer　

Fee:

Free

Language:

English and Japanese (simultaneous interpretation provided)

Participants:

70 people

Organizers:

Kitasato University School of Nursing
World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Making Pregnancy Safer
Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC)

Registration/Inquiries:

Advance registration required （first-come, first-served）

To register or to make an inquiry, please send us your name, organization, telephone number and e-mail address by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (jointokyo@worldbank.org).

We look forward to seeing you there!

 

See also:

• Lecture Series: Women and Their Families—Health Services for Pregnancy and Child Care Session 2