A doctor grapples with the challenges of mother-and-child health in the developing world. Recounting medical missions in one-third of the forty-five countries in which she has worked for the past thirty years in Africa, Asia, and, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific, Dr. Gretchen Roedde shares the grim reality of world politics and bureaucratic red tape on the front lines as a doctor in mother-and-child health and HIV/AIDS. This second edition updates the progress in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH), with additional studies in Afghanistan, Laos, South Sudan, and Nigeria. It tells the stories of the hopes of village women struggling to give birth safely, of their often corrupt leaders, and of countries trying to bring evil despots to justice. Roedde analyzes the encouraging momentum in global maternal health while maintaining a focus on equity disparities within and between countries
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 362.1982/0091724
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- d------
- ISBN
- 9781459743335 9781459743328
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- RG940
- LCCN Item number
- R64 2019eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (316 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00978656 (OCoLC)1080221612 (CaOOCEL)479719
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Struggle for mother-and-child health around the globe
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- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Contents 9
- Foreword 11
- Introduction 15
- Beginnings 23
- 1 - I Am Poor 27
- 2 - I Do Not Have the Freedom That You Have as a Woman 60
- 3 - One Day My Child Was Playing the Next Day He Had Died 87
- 4 - I Have No Education 116
- 5 - Why Are Women Dying Giving Life? 140
- 6 - I Am Tired of Seeing HIV as the Price of Wealth 201
- 7 - Where Are Our Leaders? Why Have They Forgotten Us? 214
- 8 - We Are Still Waiting 235
- Endings 245
- Acknowledgements 263
- Appendix 1 265
- Appendix 2 267
- Appendix 3 272
- Notes 277
- Image Credits 304
- Index 305
- By the Same Author 321
- Book Credits 322
