- The state of maternal health. Can MDG5 be achieved by 2015?
A global shortage of midwives is reducing the chances of countries hitting millennium development goal 5 to reduce by three-quarters the maternal mortality rate. Tell us what you think about maternal and child health, and the progress of the MDGsThursday is International Day of the Midwife, but a global shortage of midwives means many women around the world are giving birth without a trained professional, increasing the risk to women's health and reducing the chances of countries hitting millennium development goal 5 to cut maternal mortality rates.Sarah Boseley wrote about the global health shortage last month, highlighting a report by Save the Children that said the world needs 350,000 more midwives.In our new interactive, we hear from midwives across Africa about their experiences and the chances of hitting MDG5. We also look at the issue of maternal health in Nigeria.Tell us what you think can be done to transform the health of pregnant women, mothers and their young children?Is the greatest need more midwives and training? Or is this really a matter of political will and governments prioritising the needs of women and babies?Which countries and projects are doing interesting work on this area? How are they doing this? What must be done by 2015 and beyond?Post your comments below or add your picture to our Flickr group.Below are a selection of films on the experience of childbirth around the world and efforts being made to improve the safety of both women and children.The Edge of Joy - Maternal Health in Northern NigeriaSierra Leone - Where every pregnancy is a gambleNepal - Living proofMalawi - Grandparents shaping safer birthMaternal healthMaternal mortalityGenderJaz Cumminsguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject 助産師の世界的な不足は、四分の。妊産婦死亡率の削減にミレニアム開発目標を5打撃の国の可能性を低減しています
- Amar Bose gifts alma mater majority share in Bose Corporation
Founder of Bose Corporation, which makes premium audio products such as speakers and headphones, has given a majority of the company shares to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. スピーカーやヘッドフォンなどのプレミアムオーディオ製品を作ってボーズ株式会社の創始者は、マサチューセッツ工科大学に会社の株式の過半数を与えている
- Sarah Boseley on researchers who communicated with man in vegetative state
Sarah Boseley on researchers who communicated with man in vegetative stateSarah Boseley
サラBoseley人の男性と栄養stateSarahでBoseley伝達研究者
- US Republicans move to block abortion services in poor countries | Sarah Boseley
The battle over abortion access in the US again threatens to spill over into the developing world, where Republicans want US funding cut from family planning organisations that promote it. The cost could be deaths at the hands of back-street abortionistsNaively, I thought the battle over the Global Gag rule had been won, at least while Barack Obama is president of the United States. Also known as the Mexico City rule, it's the legislation brought in by successive Republican administrations in the US to block federal money from being given to any family planning provider in the developing world that helps, or even just advises, women who come looking for an abortion.But no. Obama, like Bill Clinton before him, rescinded the legislation that George Bush had reinstated. Now, however, the Republican majority in the House wants to bring it back again. This is the text of their proposal in the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act (H.R. 1), adopted by the House on a party-line vote of 235 to 189 on 19 February:None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this division for the department of state, foreign operations, and related programmes for population planning activities or other population assistance may be made available to any foreign non-governmental organisation that promotes or performs abortion, except in cases of rape or incest or when the life of the mother would be endangered if the foetus were carried to term.The fight over abortion within the US, although impassioned and sometimes violent, arguably does not have quite the scale of malign consequences that a reimposed Global Gag could have. The reason why this is an issue with horrifying repercussions in poor countries is that contraception is not widely and easily available, and many women wh 米国では妊娠中絶へのアクセスをめぐる戦いが再び共和党はそれを促進する家族計画団体から切断、米国の資金が欲しい発展途上国、に波及する恐れがある
- Three women of Katine
In a final blog on her visit to Katine, Uganda, Sarah Boseley checks out changing fortunes, counters talk of the 'end' of the project and asks if the health workers' strike is about to stopDay 4A whole day travelling round Katine visiting old friends – wonderful. I come away with a record load of gifts – a basinful of shelled groundnuts, four oranges, two eggs, a watermelon and a hen. This last I couldn't believe was for me. When the children were catching it, I was afraid it was going to be cooked for me. Worse – it ended up flapping around the jeep. I managed to give it back, though, explaining that we are not allowed to take them on planes.First, I saw Mary Amulo, who once tried to give me her baby son. She said it was like handing him over to a richer relative to bring up and not a big deal at all. I would bring him to visit. Hard to imagine anybody parting with their child, but I think she genuinely thought he would have a better life – and so would the rest of the family through my support and later, his. The extended family in Uganda is a financial as much as an emotional network. Anybody with a job can expect to to tapped for help by every relative, however remote. John Bosco, my driver, has 10 children in his Soroti house (his real home is in rural Katine), only four of whom are his. The rest are nieces and nephews whom he looks after and who get the chance of schooling in town.Mary has been very unwell, she and everybody else tells me. Malaria and pneumonia are part of it but I have a bad feeling there may be more. She has been complaining of pains in her side since the baby was born nearly two years ago. We take her for yet another check-up at the health centre. There are drugs, so anybody with a problem will be turning up.Then I saw Sister Josephine, the lea 変更する運命からKatine、ウガンダ、サラBoseleyチェックして彼女の訪問の最後のブログでは、カウンタは、プロジェクトの。。u0026#39;端。。u0026#39;の話や要求の医療従事者のストライキは、約4Aの一日は、古くからの友人を訪問してラウンドKatineを旅行stopDayにされている場合 - 素晴らしい
- Polio vaccines: extra government funding comes with strings attached| Sarah Boseley
Will David Cameron's idea to leverage extra funding for polio eradication work in a recession? David Cameron pledges £40m for polio vaccines at DavosBritain is to double the amount of money it contributes to the effort to stamp out polio, from £20m to £40m a year over the next two years – but unusually, it comes with strings attached.The increase in funding will only be paid on two conditions. The first is in keeping with the international development secretary's stick-and-carrot aid philosophy that says that incentives to better practice must be built in and results measured.Countries will have to strengthen their routine immunisation programmes – which means improving the work of clinics and outreach teams so that more children receive basic vaccinations, such as measles and DTP (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, or whooping cough).But the second condition is unusual. The extra £20m a year will only be paid if other countries or organisations put in more cash. Britain will pay £1 for every £5 contributed by others. The idea is to leverage extra funding from countries that might be thinking of cutting back on their aid spending in recession. If it works, it is a triumph. If it doesn't, the polio eradication effort will be short even of the British contribution.The idea is not original. The US pledged to contribute a third of the funding for the Global Fund to fight Aids, TB and Malaria, which put pressure on the EU and other donors to step up their contributions. It did have some of the desired effect, but that was before the financial downturn.AidPolioSarah Boseleyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
不況のポリオ撲滅活動に活用し余分な資金調達への意志David Cameronさんのアイデア？ DavosBritainは、ポリオを撲滅するための努力に貢献する金銭の額を2倍にするのデビッドキャメロンは、次の2年間£ 40メートル年間£ 20メートルから、ポリオワクチンのための£ 40メートルに質権を設定した - しかし、珍しく、それはひもが付属しています
- Why has Iran been kicked off the board of the UN's new agency for women? | Sarah Boseley
Saudi Arabia has a seat on the board of the new UN agency for women – but Iran has been ejected over its human rights recordSetting up a new UN agency is a fraught business. UN Women, designed to fight for the rights of women in the developing world in a way previous UN agencies did not manage, is no different. Following hard political lobbying from the US and human rights groups, Iran has been ejected from the board.This is the view of Kathy Peach, head of external affairs at VSO:Giving Iran a place on the board would have been a huge blow for women's rights around the globe and a huge setback for the hundreds of organisations who campaigned for the creation of UN Women. Iran's track record on women's rights, including the high-profile case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, rightly undermined its credibility to sit on an executive board tasked with securing a just and fair world for women.Iran had originally secured an uncontested seat, but was ejected after East Timor decided to compete – perhaps with a little persuasion?It is interesting, however, that Iran – one of the west's least favourite nations – should be pushed out while Saudi Arabia – not known for its strong stance on equality – has a place. So do Libya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.US ambassador Susan Rice told the BBC that the US was pleased with the outcome after Iran lost at the ballot.I am not going to deny that there were several countries that are going to join the board of UN Women that have less than stellar records on women's rights, and indeed human rights.It does make me wonder, however, whether being kicked off the board of UN Women is more likely to help – or hinder – change in Iran?United NationsIranMiddle EastGenderEqualitySarah Boseleyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limi サウジアラビアは、女性のための新たな国連機関のボード上の座席を持って - しかし、イランははらんでビジネスされ、新しい国連機関をrecordSetting人権上排出されています
- Sarah Boseley explains: What's happened to the UK's health?
The Guardian's health editor introduces our health factfile - and the full dataset behind it• Get the data• Tomorrow: politicsHealth, as the work of Professor Sir Michael Marmot most recently eloquently demonstrated, is in no small part a function of where and to whom you were born. The most deprived communities, where jobs are low-paid if not scarce and those who make it to university are a talking point rather than the norm, are also those where cancer rates, heart disease and strokes are high. One government after another has been uncomfortably aware of this and made promises to do something about it. It has always defeated them.But while the health inequality gap persists, the UK's health overall has been getting better. Comprehensive childhood immunisation programmes have virtually wiped out some diseases. Smoking has become the number one public health target, and although we still struggle to get certain groups - young women and people in those deprived areas particularly - to quit, the public smoking ban, high taxes and campaigns have had an impact that must show up in lower rates of lung and other cancers and reduced heart disease. Diagnosis and treatment of cancer has improved - even if we still trail much of Europe in death rates. The politicians (and the drug companies) argue that is because we don't buy the newest, most expensive cancer drugs. The cancer tsar, Professor Mike Richards, will tell you it is because we are slow to diagnose the disease, especially in those deprived areas (again) where men and women do not stride into the GP's surgery demanding attention.In recent years, the health gap has become visible, manifesting itself in obesity, which is often most rife among those with less money and less education, who are more likely to buy affordable a ガーディアンの健康エディタは我々の健康factfileを紹介 - と背後には、データ•明日：politicsHealth教授サーマイケルマーモットの仕事最近雄弁に示すように入手してください？完全なデータセットはごく一部にの関数であると相手に生まれた
- Letters: G8 leaders must fulfil their aid promises to developing countries
G8 leaders meeting in Canada this week must face the fact that collectively their countries have failed to deliver on the promises made to the world's poorest five years ago. Had the promised aid been delivered it would have had a dramatic effect on the lives of poor people. Where aid has increased it has made a massive difference. The number of people receiving HIV treatment, for example, has increased tenfold in recent years.Now recent gains in reducing poverty are under attack from the economic crisis, climate change and food shortages. That is why the G8 club of rich nations must look beyond their own economic struggles and set out how they will fulfil the promises made in 2005.The G20 must also step up to the plate. When considering how the financial sector should repay the costs of the economic crisis, they have an opportunity and a duty to help poor countries hit by a crisis they did nothing to cause.A global tax on finance, such as a financial transaction tax, or the FAT tax, proposed by the IMF, could raise hundreds of billions to help poor countries threatened by rising poverty and climate change. It should not be too much to ask for poor countries to receive their share.Annie Lennox Singer/songwriter and activist, Gael Garcia Bernal Actor and Oxfam ambassador, Jeremy Hobbs Executive director, Oxfam International, Miguel Bose Singer, Rahul Bose Actor, Emeritus Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Angelique Kidjo Singer, Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan, Musimbi Kanyoro Board member, Realizing rights, Die Toten Hosen rock band, Colin Firth Actor, Kristin Davis Actor, John Githongo CEO, Inuka Kenya Trust, Bill Nighy Actor, Mary Robinson Honorary president, Oxfam International, Helena Christensen Photographer and model, Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda General secretary, World YWCA, カナダのG8首脳会議は今週、という事実を総称して自分の国は、世界で最も貧しい5年前に約束した上で配信に失敗して直面しなければならない
- Guardian Daily podcast: Darling on debt; plus disparities in NHS death rates
Alistair Darling speaks exclusively to Michael White after the release of growth and debt figures from the new Office for Budget Responsibility. Britain's annual borrowing will be more than £20bn lower than predicted, but growth forecasts have also been slashed. Darling claims it is premature to begin making big cuts to public spending and predicts that the Conservatives will raise the VAT rate in next week's budget.Sticking with the economy, the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, said in a speech in London this afternoon that it was not progressive to wait before tackling the deficit and risk paying higher interest rates.Meanwhile, as David Cameron announces a review of health and safety legislation, we hear opposing views from Labour's Gerry Sutcliffe and Conservative Bernard Jenkin on whether Britain is developing a compensation culture.Patients are more likely to die during vascular surgery in smaller hospitals, a Guardian investigation revealed today. Health editor, Sarah Boseley, explains the findings, which show huge disparities in NHS death rates.We get a taste of the intense passion of South African football fans following their national side at unofficial screenings in Soweto.Michael WhiteJon DennisTim MabyPhil MaynardPeter Sale
ダーリングは排他的マイケルホワイトに予算責任のための新しいOfficeからの成長と負債の数字のリリース後に語っています
- Drugs for blindness and a development-free election
Interesting moves are going on to explore the use of cheap, but unlicensed treatments to prevent blindness in the UK - while barely a word is said by campaigning politicians about international development.Interesting moves are going on in the UK to explore the possibillity of bringing in to the NHS a cheap drug to treat the most common form of blindness - which is licensed for bowel cancer but not for wet age-related macular degeneration.Ophthalmologists all over the world are following the example of the US, where vials of the bowel cancer drug Avastin are being split into hundreds of tiny doses and injected into the eye. But the manufacturer, Genentech, has developed and trialled and licensed a version of Avastin, in the right-sized shots, which it calls Lucentis. And Lucentis costs - in the UK - over £700 an injection (a course is something like 14). Avastin is a fraction of the price.With 26,000 new cases of wet AMD in the UK every year, the bills are starting to look prohibitive. The UK government is taking unprecedented steps which could allow the use of cheap Avastin instead. See my piece here.Meanwhile we are in the last throes of the election campaign and barely a mention of international development - let alone global health. Yet the dire state of the economy surely means at least a risk of cuts in what have been generous and useful programmes under the Labour government. Here is the Overseas Development Institute's take on what may happen after Thursday's vote. And here is Oxfam's, complete with YouTube clips.And these were the thoughts of Lawrence Haddad from the Institute of Development Studies.Any more offerings welcome!International aid and developmentGeneral election 2010Pharmaceuticals industryBlindness and visual impairmentSarah Boseleyguardian.co.uk 面白い動きが格安の使用を検討するが、進められている免。治療は、英国で失明を防ぐために - ほとんどの単語は、国際development.Interesting動きについて、政治家を選挙運動で、英国で持ってくるpossibillityを探るになると言われているNHSの格安の薬は失明の最も一般的なフォームを - 腸癌のことだというウェット加齢黄斑degeneration.Ophthalmologistsの全世界以上で承認に扱うため、米国の例に従っている場。腸癌の瓶薬アバスチンは小さな用量の数百に分割されていると目に注入した
- Guardian Daily podcast: ICM survey indicates no Tory majority; plus homeopathy and the NHS
The Conservatives should no longer count on winning the election outright, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today. Julian Glover has the details. He discusses Andrew Rawnsley's claims about Gordon Brown's character in his book The End of the Party with commentator Michael White.The beleaguered head of the National Bullying Helpline, Christine Pratt, talks to Steven Morris about her charity and its alleged contact with Downing Street.Health editor Sarah Boseley explains why MPs have called for the Department of Health to stop funding homeopathy, as there's no scientific evidence it works better than placebo.And at London Fashion Week, designer Betty Jackson talks to our fashion editor Jess Cartner-Morley.Jon DennisPhil MaynardTim Maby
ガーディアン/ ICMの世論調査本日発表によると、あからさまな選挙で勝利した上で、保守党はもはや必要がカウント
- Guardian Daily podcast: Questions raised over treatment of PVS patients; plus the web's most influential people
Health editor Sarah Boseley discusses new research on a patient in a vegetative state which raises questions over the treatment and care given to those in similar situations. After the defence secretary published a green paper on the future of our armed forces, a full-scale review is on the cards. Security editor Richard Norton-Taylor tells us why Britain may soon be teaming up with other countries.There's scepticism as Iran agrees to send uranium abroad for enrichment. Diplomatic editor Julian Borger explains what's going on. He also mentions the unusual cargo sent up in Iran's latest rocket test. Ben Child speaks to Matt Damon about his new film Invictus. The actor also jokes about the portrayal of a Guardian journalist in the Bourne Ultimatum. And Maev Kennedy runs us through Forbes Magazine's list of the most influential people on the internet. Leave your comments below on our blog. Follow Guardian Daily on Twitter: @guardiandaily.Andy DuckworthPhil MaynardTim Maby
健康エディタサラBoseleyは、治療やケア、これらと同様の状況では与えられた以上の疑問が植物状態の患者に新たな研究について説明します
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