Appointing Interns/Volunteers!!
You may know someone who is interested in volunteering working with GRAG team across Africa. Our volunteer program is open to everybody, both students, professional and non-professional. Read more
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Safe Motherhood
For many decades, maternal morbidity and mortality has been a major reproductive health problem in developing countries. So much so that both the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) call for a 75% reduction in maternal mortality between 1990 and 2015. While research has revealed some improvements in maternal mortality due to several factors (i.e. fertility rate, income, education), there are still many things which need to be done to ensure that the women who are most at risk (over 90% pregnancy or childbirth related deaths occur in Africa and Asia) can receive services that will maintain their health during this period.
In line with the policies of UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank, also known as 'The Health 4', GRAG will work with these four agencies to save the lives of women and newborns in many of the countries with the highest maternal mortality. Our advocacy and research initiatives efforts aim to increase the capacity of national health systems to provide a wide range of quality maternal health services, reduce health inequities, and empower women in their right to care.
Our activities focus on:
- Advocating/campaigning for more resources, at the national level and globally, committed to improving the quality, as well as women’s access to care
- Conducting research studies to identify and better understand the factors which contribute to MMR and the effective methods for reducing it
- Performing workshops and seminars to highlight our research findings so they can be applied/influence current interventions
