UNFPA Safe Motherhood Resource Kit: No Woman Should Die Giving Life

Safe Motherhood Resource Kit

On this web page, you will find updated and newsworthy information on maternal health that can be used as background for articles, feature stories, interviews and other communications.

Help Spread the Word – No Women Should Die Giving Life (short video clips)

When Mother Died,
the Family Fell Apart
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Every Minute,
A Mother is Dying
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Look At Her
Before It's Too Late
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Fact sheets on maternal health and UNFPA

When pregnancy kills	\| English \| Français \| Español \| Arabic \|
Contraceptives safe lives	\| English \| Français \| Español \| Arabic \|
Delivering hope and saving lives	\| English \| Français \| Español \| Arabic \|
Providing emergency obstetric care	\| English \| Français \| Español \| Arabic \|
MD5 Improve Maternal Health	\| English \| Français \| Español \| Arabic \|
Additional technical information

Special focus feature stories

	Mobile Clinics Bring Life-saving Care to Myanmar Women
	Problems in 'Paradise': Addressing Reproductive Health in the Pacific Islands
	It Takes Two: Men as Partners in Maternal Health
	Dispatches from Darfur
	Reaching Out to the People When the People Can't Reach Health Care

Publications

	Maternal Mortality in 2005 - Estimates developed by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, and The World Bank
	Maternal Mortality Update 2006 - Investing in Midwives and Others with Midwifery Skills

Stories from the field

	Midwife Pledges to Help Save Mothers' and Infants' Lives After Losing Her Own Babies
	Providing Maternal Health Care in Ecuador's Amazon Region
	Delivering Hope to Women with Fistula in Niger
	Little Blue Book Helps to Improve Maternal Health in Morocco
	UNFPA Provides Nigerian Hospitals with Equipment and Supplies to Save Mothers' Lives
	Female Medical Teams in Pakistan Reach More Women and Save More Lives Slideshow Video
	Special Delivery: Volunteers on Bicycles Bring Health Care to Rural Senegal
	Risking Death to Give Life in Panama's Tropical Forest Slideshow
	Waiting Home Increases Safe Deliveries
	Facing the Risks of Childbearing in Rural Viet Nam
	Fistula a Men's Issue, Too
	The New Route to Safer Childbirth in Rural Senegal
	A Safe Haven for Girls Escaping Harm in Kenya
	Former Fistula Patient Preaches Prevention to Village Women in Niger
	Fistula Repair Facility Brings Hope to the Outcast Slideshow Video
	What Works in HIV Prevention: Keeping Women and their Children Healthy
	Facing the Risks of Childbearing in Rural Viet Nam
	Kindling Hope in Northern Ethiopia by Keeping Adolescent Girls in School

Video statements by Ms. Thoroya Obaid, Executive Director of the UNFPA

	No Women Should Die Having a baby	\| View online (Flash) \| Download (WMV File) \|

	Safe motherhood	\| View online (Flash) \| Download (WMV File) \|
	Invest in Women	\| View online (Flash) \| Download (WMV File) \|
	Why Maternal Health	\| View online (Flash) \| Download (WMV File) \|

	Millennium Development Goal 5	\| View online (Flash) \| Download (WMV File) \|

Videos

	Making Motherhood Safer - UNFPA in Laos
	Protecting maternal health - High-risk Pregnancy in Rural Bolivia
	Men’s Partnership in Maternal Health - UNFPA in Jordan
	Men’s Partnership in Maternal Health - UNFPA in Tajikistan
	Birth at the check-point - In occupied Palestinian territory
	UNFPA Advocacy Video - Raising Awareness
	A Walk to Beautiful - An upcoming documentary
	New Fistula Centre - Opening of Fistula Centre in Zalingei, West Darfur
	Delivering Hope - Campaign to End Fistula
	Repairing Obstetric Fistula - Maternal Health Care for Bangladesh
	Peace Dividend for Nepali women - Health camps deliver care in former conflict zone
	Fistula and Men’s Involvement in Sudan