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Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 15, Issue 30, Pages 6-244 (November 2007)
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Editorial


Maternal Mortality and Morbidity: Is Pregnancy Getting Safer for Women? free full text
Marge Berer
pages 6-16
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Maternal Mortality and Maternity Care from 1990 to 2005: Uneven but Important Gains
Iqbal H Shah, Lale Say
pages 17-27
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Improving Maternal Health: Getting What Works To Happen
Loveday Penn-Kekana, Barbara McPake, Justin Parkhurst
pages 28-37
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Making Systems Work: The Hard Part of Improving Maternal Health Services in South Africa
Leena Susan Thomas, Ruxana Jina, Khin San Tint, Sharon Fonn
pages 38-49
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Educating Skilled Birth Attendants in Mexico: Do the Curricula Meet International Confederation of Midwives Standards?
Leslie Cragin, Lisa M DeMaria, Lourdes Campero, Dilys M Walker
pages 50-60
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The Experience of Ghana in Implementing a User Fee Exemption Policy to Provide Free Delivery Care
Sophie Witter, Daniel Kojo Arhinful, Anthony Kusi, Sawudatu Zakariah-Akoto
pages 61-71
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Improving Emergency Obstetric Care in a Context of Very High Maternal Mortality: The Nepal Safer Motherhood Project 1997–2004
Alison Dembo Rath, Indira Basnett, Melissa Cole, Hom Nath Subedi, Deborah Thomas, Susan F Murray
pages 72-80
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Support to the Safe Motherhood Programme in Nepal: An Integrated Approach
Carol E Barker, Cherry E Bird, Ajit Pradhan, Ganga Shakya
pages 81-90
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Persistence of High Maternal Mortality in Koppal District, Karnataka, India: Observed Service Delivery Constraints
Asha George
pages 91-102
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Evoking the Guardian Angel: Childbirth Care in a Palestinian Hospital
Sahar Hassan-Bitar, Laura Wick
pages 103-113
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Consequences of Birth Policies and Practices in Post-Reform China
Amanda Harris, Yu Gao, Lesley Barclay, Suzanne Belton, Zweng Wei Yue, Hao Min, Xu Auqun, Liao Hua, Zhou Yun
pages 114-124
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Research on Severe Maternal Morbidities and Near-Misses in Brazil: What We Have Learned
Jose Guilherme Cecatti, Joao Paulo Souza, Mary Angela Parpinelli, Maria Helena de Sousa, Eliana Amaral
pages 125-133
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Maternal Mortality in Pernambuco, Brazil: What Has Changed in Ten Years?
Sandra Valongueiro Alves
pages 134-144
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The Introduction of Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Near-Miss Case Reviews in the WHO European Region
Alberta Bacci, Gwyneth Lewis, Valentina Baltag, Ana P Betrán
pages 145-152
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Misclassified Maternal Deaths among East African Immigrants in Sweden
Karin Elebro, Mattias Rööst, Kontie Moussa, Sara Johnsdotter, Birgitta Essén
pages 153-162
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Monitoring Maternity Mortality in Botswana
Keitshokile Dintle Mogobe, Wananani Tshiamo, Motsholathebe Bowelo
pages 163-171
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Unmonitored Intrapartum Oxytocin Use in Home Deliveries: Evidence from Uttar Pradesh, India
Patricia Jeffery, Abhijit Das, Jashodhara Dasgupta, Roger Jeffery
pages 172-178
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Global Progress in PMTCT and Paediatric HIV Care and Treatment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries in 2004–2005
Chewe Luo, Priscilla Akwara, Ngashi Ngongo, Patricia Doughty, Robert Gass, Rene Ekpini, Siobhan Crowley, Chika Hayashi
pages 179-189
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Seizing the Big Missed Opportunity: Linking HIV and Maternity Care Services in Sub-Saharan Africa
Nel Druce, Anne Nolan
pages 190-201
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Abortion Policies and Practices in Chile: Ambiguities and Dilemmas
Bonnie L Shepard, Lidia Casas Becerra
pages 202-210
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Roundtable: Is Pregnancy Getting Safer for Women?


Roundtable: Is Pregnancy Getting Safer for Women? Dear Minister
Wendy J Graham, Endang L Achadi, Margaret Armar-Klemesu, Tim Ensor, Nicolas Meda
pages 211-213
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Roundtable


Roundtable: Making Pregnancy Safer in Myanmar: Introducing Misoprostol to Prevent Post-Partum Haemorrhage as Part of Active Management of the Third Stage of Labour
Thein Thein Htay
pages 214-215
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Roundtable: Celebrating Progress toward Safer Pregnancy
Julia Hussein
pages 216-218
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Roundtable: Health System Strengthening: New Potential for Public Health and Human Rights Collaboration
Lynn P Freedman
pages 219-220
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Other Features


Experiences of Sexual Harassment of Women Health Workers in Four Hospitals in Kolkata, India
Paramita Chaudhuri
pages 221-229
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Abortion: An Open Secret? Abortion and Social Network Involvement in Burkina Faso
Clémentine Rossier
pages 230-238
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Round Up


Round Up Maternal Mortality and Morbidity
pages 239-249
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