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advocating accountability: status report on maternal health and young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in south asia
Published in 2008
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As part of our commitment to strengthening the women’s movement through building regional partnerships for advocacy, the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) periodically organizes regional strategic planning meetings. At these events, our partners participate in identifying emerging challenges to women’s health and rights, and facilitate regional cooperation aimed at enhancing the national […]
arrow for change – health systems and women’s rights: key elements in effectively averting maternal death and disability
Published in 2006
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Every day, thousands of women die from pregnancy and childbirth in Asia and the Pacific. 75% of these deaths are from complications directly associated with the process of pregnancy and childbirth, i.e. direct maternal death, such as from bleeding, hypertension-with-convulsion, infection, and unsafe abortion. The rest are from the aggravation of the maternal state by […]
arrow for change – maternal mortality: why women need not die
Published in 2001
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To this day, women continue to die from the age-old and most common complications of pregnancy and childbirth – hemorrhage, infections, unsafe abortion, obstructed labour, and the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. In 1995, the latest estimated number of maternal deaths globally was 515,000. Of these deaths, 53 per cent (272,000) occurred in Africa, 42 per […]
towards women-centred reproductive health – annotated bibliography
Published in 1994
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Information package No. Continue reading towards women-centred reproductive health – annotated bibliography at Arrow.