[IEEE-bhpjobs] (fwd) April 21 AAUW branch meeting - FHI clinical trials on averting maternal death

[Esther L.]

forwarded meeting announcement:
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before you ask, Yes men are welcome to attend AAUW meetings. Men are 
welcome to join and to hold offices, too. AAUW does not discriminate in 
membership. When AAUW liberalized and voted to allow men to join in the 
1970s, we didn't want to change the name we'd had since 1881.
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April 21, 2005 AAUW Raleigh/Wake County branch meeting:
Location: Alumnae House, Meredith College, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Agenda: Speaker followed by annual business meeting (officer elections)

directions to Meredith College: http://www.meredith.edu/about/directions.htm

Speaker: Dr. Patsy Bailey, Family Health International. FHI is a 
nonprofit international public health organization, managing research 
and field activities in more than 70 countries to meet the public health 
needs of some of the world's most vulnerable people.

Dr. Patsy Bailey will speak about a large project that she has been part 
of for the last 5 years that is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates 
Foundation and awarded to Columbia University. The program Averting 
Maternal Death and Disability or AMDD seeks to reduce maternal deaths 
during pregnancy, childbirth and in the postpartum period by improving 
the availability, utilization and quality of emergency obstetric care 
(EmOC). AMDD has worked in more than 50 countries with Unicef, UNFPA, 
Save the Children and CARE International as their implementing partners, 
mostly in Africa and Asia where most maternal deaths take place. Patsy 
will talk about the strategies AMDD has chosen to implement and how 
effective they've been with examples from Peru, Mozambique and Vietnam.

Patsy has worked at FHI in a research capacity for over 20 years. She
received her doctorate in Maternal and Child Health in 1991 for her work 
on the relationship between young maternal age and infant mortality and 
child morbidity. Much of her work has focused on programmatic evaluation 
in the areas of maternal health, adolescents and HIV prevention. Family 
Health International assisted with research in Uganda that showed a 
relatively inexpensive drug called nevirapine could effectively reduce 
HIV transmission between infected pregnant women and their infants.

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Esther Lumsdon
President, AAUW Raleigh/Wake County Branch

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--  Esther L.,  esther-L at alumni.virginia.edu
Speaking only for myself