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Jun 14, 2018

Celebrating Solutions to Postpartum Hemorrhage on World Blood Donor Day

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Mar 6, 2017

5th International Day to End Obstetric Fistula

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Feb 24, 2017

Back in Tanzania with Every Mother Counts to make Pregnancy and Childbirth safer

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Oct 19, 2016

FAME’s First Maternal Death

An important reminder of the barriers that countless women face in trying…

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Jan 14, 2015

Tanzania 101

2015 is a big year for Every Mother Counts as it marks our fifth birthday.

Five years ago, the documentary film, NO WOMAN, NO CRY, was released to address and document maternal health challenges around the world. With an inspired audience eager to become part of a movement to end…

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Apr 9, 2013

an american midwife in Tanzania

Myra Deluca, an American midwife in Tanzania, shares a heartbreaking story of what happened during one shift spent volunteering in a Tanzanian maternity unit.

I am struggling to put into words properly what I have seen. I do not want to be critical…

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Feb 12, 2013

Clancy climbs Kilimanjaro for EMC

The last time I traveled to Tanzania back in 2009 was with Christy and our film crew as co-producer of “No Woman, No Cry.”

We spent two weeks with local pregnant women, including Janet and Lightness, and their caregivers at Ol Doinyo Sambu, Rahel and Hertha. My many…

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Feb 4, 2013

Every Mother Counts: A Focus on Africa

The highest burden of maternal and infant deaths occur in Sub-Saharan Africa. Every Mother Counts writes about the challenges and solutions mothers in Africa and about EMC’s efforts to create change.

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Sep 26, 2012

World Contraception Day: Uncomfortable Conversations in Tanzania

We knew we wanted to highlight Women Deliver’s World Contraception Day post because Tanzania holds such a special place in our hearts.
The country made such an impression on Christy when she first visited in 1990 that…

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Jun 8, 2012

White Ribbon Alliance in Tanzania

Tanzania is suffering from a severe shortage of midwives. In Tanzania, there is one midwife for every forty women in labor. Meanwhile, the size of nursing and midwifery school classes is rapidly decreasing — midwifery schools which once trained nearly three hundred…