June 2011
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Thank you for your support!
Yesterday evening, we at Saving Mothers hosted our second annual benefit.
Thanks to all the wonderful supporters who turned out at the Mason Jar last night or made contributions to mark the occasion, we raised over $6,000. All of us at Saving Mothers want to extend our heartfelt thanks for the generosity of everyone who helped us make this event such a success, from the folks at the Mason Jar...
Don't Miss Saving Mothers' Second Annual Benefit...
Saving Mothers is hosting its annual benefit in New York City tomorrow. Exciting stuff- not only because the event itself will be awesome (food! drinks! silent auctioning!) but because of what events like this enable our organization to accomplish.
As a non-profit, Saving Mothers relies on the support of people who believe in our cause and want to make a tangible difference in the lives of women...
Midwifery & Maternal Health 2011
This past Monday, the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) released a report entitled The State of the World’s Midwifery 2001: Delivering Health, Saving Lives in response to the ‘Global Call to Action’ issued at the first-ever Symposium on Strengthening Midwifery in Washington D.C. last summer. The report presents data on midwifery around the globe, and provides profiles for 58...
Countdown to Zero: Preventing Mother-to-Child...
Last week, UNAIDS (the joint United Nations program combating HIV and AIDS) launched a new global initiative with the ambitious goal of eliminating new HIV infections among infants and dramatically improving the quality of life for HIV-positive mothers and expectant mothers by 2015. The plan is designed to cover all middle- and low-income countries, but focuses specifically on the 22 countries*...
Indispensable: Family Planning Services in America
You can hardly open a paper these days without reading about another state attempting to end family planning services or cut funds from Planned Parenthood. Indiana has gone the farthest — actually enacting a law that would ban the use of Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood — but other states like North Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin and Tennessee have introduced similar measures.
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