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Putting Women at the Center of Maternal Health Care

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Women Deliver 2010, "Delivering solutions for girls and women," will focus on political, economic, social/cultural and technological solutions to achieve Millennium Development Goal 5 – to improve maternal health.

ICRW will participate in Women Deliver 2010, including a panel discussion, "Putting Women at the Center of Maternal Health Care: Addressing Poverty and Gender Inequality as Barriers to Utilization." This panel highlights findings from a background paper prepared by ICRW for the conference that focuses on the ways in which financial and gender-related barriers impede the utilization of maternal health care services, and how these barriers can be addressed through evidenced-based programs and policies. The panel also features examples of field programs that have improved utilization by addressing women’s disempowerment and/or poverty.

For more information about the conference: www.womendeliver.org/conferences.

Speakers: 

Rekha Mehra, Director, Economic Development, International Center for Research on Women
Viviana Mangiaterra, Partnership Coordinator, Department of Making Pregnancy Safer, WHO
Suneeta Sharma, Deputy Director, USAID|Health Policy Initiative Project, Futures Group International
Luis Tam, Director, Technical Unit, Plan International USA
 

When: 
Tue, 06/08/2010 - 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Where: 
Walter E. Washington Convention Center
801 Mount Vernon Place NW Room 147A
Washington, DC
United States
See map: Google Maps
Host: 
Women Deliver
Cost: 
Registration at the Women Deliver conference required