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Creating a maternal health movement

At the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013: Improving Quality of Care in Arusha, Tanzania, a manifesto was presented by Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet, to contribute to the platform for moving forward and to the discussions about new global health goals, post 2015. Still 800 women die every day although women in the twenty-first century “do not have to give up their lives when they give us a new life” [Professor Mahmoud Fathalla]. We can save lives and appreciate the drop in maternal mortality by 33 percent between 1990 and 2010; and yes, we can do more. Read more about the vision and the recommended actions ยป