Sunday, July 18, 2010

Maternal mortality: What if Africa didn’t care?


The ordinary African woman, generally closer to death than to life whenever performing her natural duty of giving life, will be hoping for tangible results from the deliberations of the 15th African Union Summit (19-27 July 2010), convened in Kampala under the lovely theme, “Maternal, infant and child health and development in Africa”.

The choice of this theme is a good step in the AU’s Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA), launched in 2009 under the key message, “Africa Cares: No woman should die while giving life”.