MDG Goal 5

‘Misoprostol – Must for Reducing Maternal Mortality’

By Zofeen Ebrahim
“I can’t imagine life without misoprostol,” says Dr. Azra Ahsan, a gynaecologist and obstetrician who has, for more than a decade, been using the controversial drug to stop women from bleeding to death after delivery.

Laos’s Rural Women Await Midwives

By Marwaan Macan-Markar
A year after the Laotian government launched a safe pregnancy programme news of this initiative,  involving the dispatch of teams of midwives across the country, is yet to reach women in the remote  communities.


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