In India the incidence of women dying while giving birth is among the highest in the world. How poverty, early marriage and poor infrastructure make childbirth fraught with risk.
The Maternal Health Task Force's Kate Mitchell highlights two maternal health reporting projects
Published April 28, 2010
Kate Mitchell of the the Maternal Health task force mentions Hanna Ingber's "India Casts a Light on Mothers Long in the Dark" and Samuel Loewenberg's "The struggle for health in Chiapas" in her blog
Pulitzer Center Launches Two New Reporting Projects on Maternal Mortality, India and Mexico
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting recently identified maternal mortality as a priority issue that demands more coverage–and has made a commitment to support reporting projects that draw attention to the under-reported issue of international maternal mortality. In January, I blogged about Marco Vernaschi's project in Guinea Bissau. The center is now supporting additional projects on maternal mortality–one in India and another in Mexico.
Women and rural families' attitudes toward family planning are slowly changing in India, and public health experts in Assam say they are seeing an increase in the use of contraceptives.
Boat clinics in India provide family planning services, immunizations, antenatal care to pregnant women and basic healthcare to socially and geographically isolated villages along the Brahmaptra Ri
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Nathalie joined the Pulitzer Center in 2006, shortly after its founding, and has played a key role in the development of the Center's model and approach towards journalism initiatives and...
