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 | | |  | | | | | | Spotlighted Topic of the Week: Maternal Health | | Blog of the Week: a Five-Part Series | | NOTE: This week we have not just one but five blogs of the week, all devoted to efforts to save the lives of mothers in Africa. Check our blog each day this week to see the latest post. | | SAVING MOTHERS, GIVING LIFE: TACKLING MATERNAL MORTALITY IN UGANDA (PART 1 OF 5) | | It’s not easy being pregnant in Uganda. Nor is it always safe in a country that has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Saving Mothers, Giving Life (SMGL) wants to change that. This novel initiative undertaken by Uganda’s Ministry of Health with ample support and guidance from CDC and other partners is showing promise and raising hopes that Uganda’s hard history with childbirth might be easing...read blog | |  | | Infographic of the Week | | |  | | Video of the Week | SAVING MOTHERS: A NEW INITIATIVE TO ADDRESS MATERNAL MORTALITY
(provided by the Center for Strategic and International Studies) | | Every day, nearly 800 women die from complications in pregnancy or childbirth, and 99% of these deaths occur in developing countries. Zambia is a country with a disproportionately high rate of maternal mortality -- 20 times higher than the U.S. But Zambia, as well as Uganda, is also the site of a new program, called Saving Mothers, Giving Life (SMGL), designed to reduce maternal mortality by up to 50% in selected districts in a year. Learn more about SMGL in this week's video, which comes to us from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)...view video | |  | | Story of the Week | | LILLIAN AND BABY ROSE: AN HIV-POSITIVE MOTHER GETS HELP FROM CDC | | Lillian, a 20-year-old mom living in rural Nyanza province, first met Dr. Abraham Katana during her first antenatal visit at the Siaya District Hospital. She was five months pregnant and just learning she was HIV-positive. Dr. Katana, the study coordinator for KEMRI/CDC's Intermittent Preventive Treatment for malaria in Pregnancy (IPTp)-with Mefloquine study, encouraged her to be part of his malaria studybecause, as he put it, The primary objective (of this study) is malaria prevention in HIV-positive pregnant women and we have committed to providing the best possible care to our participants, which includes HIV care...read story | |  | | | In the News | | Register now for the Healthy People 2020 Progress Review Webinar, July 30, 12:30 PM ET Entomologist spent career studying mosquitoes at CDC Atlanta Journal-Constitution
July 13, 2013 As Mystery Illness Stalks Its Young, India Intensifies Search for a Killer New York Times
July 13, 2013 | | On the Calendar | | July 28: World Hepatitis Day
August 1-7: World Breastfeeding Week
August 12: International Youth Day | | | | | | | | | |
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