related links & supporters
| Dead Women Don't Cry - BBC Panorama - As part of the BBC's Africa Season, Panorama has filmed one woman's struggle to stop mothers in her country dying. She's Grace Kodindo - an obstetrician in the poverty-stricken central African country of Chad. |
| The Truth about Maternity Care in Chad - A fly-on-the-wall account by Pippa Zintillis |
| AMDD - Averting Maternal Death & Disability The AMDD Program was established in 1999 to work with developing countries and international agencies to improve availability, quality and utilization of emergency obstetric care. |
| From Cardiff To Chad - Angela Gorman’s account of the visit |
| The World Fact Book - Chad - Chad, part of France's African holdings until 1960, endured three decades of civil warfare as well as invasions by Libya before a semblance of peace was finally restored in 1990. |
| Reproductive Health In Chad - Ensuring reproductive health in Chad presents some daunting challenges to its citizens, politicians and health care providers. |
| Chad : the Safe Motherhood Project - In this largely Muslim population, only about a third of women have any schooling, most marry young (nearly 80 percent by the age of 19) and by the age of 18, more than half have had their first child. |
| World Health Organization (WHO) - Maternal Health - This page provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working on this topic. |
| UNFPA - Africa's Lawmakers Should Do More To Save Continent From Deaths from AIDS, Disease and Poverty, Appeals UNFPA's Thoraya Obaid. |
| Maternal & Newborn Health - World-wide, 63.3% of births are attended by a skilled health worker. Although virtually all births are attended by skilled health personnel in more developed countries, this proportion is 59.3% in less developed countries and only 33.9% in the least developed countries. |
| ID21 Health - The governments of the world are breaking a promise that could save the lives of five million women in the next 10 years. A woman dies every minute from complications in pregnancy or childbirth. |
| IFRC (Red Cross) - This scene at Tréguine refugee camp in eastern Chad may seem idyllic, but it is not one appreciated by International Federation water and sanitation delegate Walter Baumgartner, at least from a professional point of view. |
| IHP - International Health Partners (IHP) is a charitable organisation dedicated to providing donated medical aid to communities in the developing world. |
| GiveNow - Maximise the value of your gift to any recognised charity in the UK, safely and swiftly. |
| Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program |
| The Tropical Health and Education Trust |
| Unison - The Public Sector Workers Union. |
| Interprea - International Preeclampsia Alliance - Interprea is an international alliance of patient advocacy groups, researchers and safe motherhood organizations working towards a common goal - taking action to end preeclampsia. |
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