In Honor of Mother’s Day
This week we celebrated Mother’s Day in our home. We celebrated my grandmother, my mom, and also me. It feels strange to be a mother. This is only my second Mother’s Day ever, having given birth to my son Ryan…
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The Health Worker Difference
In February, my nephew Will was born. I am not a mother myself, so I take great pride in my nieces and new nephew and try to be a great auntie (which may or may not involve some spoiling on occasion)….
Operating Room: Surgical Care in the Big Picture of Global Health
We all know many people who go above and beyond the day-to-day demands of their careers. Physicians are particularly overwhelmed these days and it is encouraging to hear stories from my colleagues who are balancing their work at home with…
India: Tuberculosis stalks the young
With an estimated 2 million cases annually, India has the world’s highest burden of tuberculosis, about 20 percent of the world’s infections. The World Health Organization estimates that each year, as many as 320,000 people there die of the disease….
Welcome To The World: Online Social Screening
Join Women of Vision and our partner Women and Girls Lead for an online social screening of Welcome To The World, which shares some of the conditions that women around the world are forced to give birth in and looks…
Voices of Change: Notes from Afghanistan
My colleagues who work in Afghanistan have an up-close perspective on one of the most dangerous places in the world to give birth. In a country where maternal mortality is at an estimated 1800 women per 100,000 live births, Micah and…
Ethiopia: Woman Saved from 24 years of fistula
This month our country of focus is Ethiopia, where World Vision’s Strong Women, Strong World initiative is working to provide change as a response to the needs of women and girls living in poverty in developing nations. The following story…
Welcome To The World Online Social Screening
Join Women of Vision and our partner Women and Girls Lead for an online social screening of Welcome To The World, which shares some of the conditions that women around the world are forced to give birth in and looks at the…
Looking at Maternal Health: Ethiopia
I think all of us have a story of ourselves or a friend of ours who had a scare during pregnancy or childbirth. Whether it was something like preeclampsia, an emergency c-section, or post delivery bleeding, those stories remind us…
Downton Abbey: Lessons for Today
It’s sad to think that more people may know what happened to one of the main characters on Downton Abbey during her pregnancy than know about the maternal health crisis in our modern world. I watch this TV show myself,…
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