Partners
Partnership isn’t just essential to the way we work – it’s how we work
Our partners include United Nations agencies, national ministries of health, research institutes, and other non-governmental organizations. The unique skills and experience of each partner make our joint work notably stronger.
For all country-specific projects, we partner with ministries of health and local organizations. They lead the effort. We offer expertise to support the process.
We’ve worked with partners in over 50 countries to strengthen health systems and expand the availability, quality, and utilization of EmOC. See where we work now.
UN Partners
- UNFPA
- UNICEF
- World Health Organization
Organizations and Universities
- The Centre for Global Health, Trinity College, Dublin
- Eduardo Mondlane University, Department of Community Health, Mozambique
- Ghana Health Service
- Ifakara Health Institute
- Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
- International Initiative on Maternal Mortality and Human Rights
- The RAISE Initiative
- Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative
- The Regional Prevention of Maternal Mortality Network
- University of Malawi College of Medicine
- National Health Systems Resource Center, India
- Tanzania Training Centre for International Health
- University of Ghana School of Public Health
Learn how we make change in maternal health.
Partnership highlight
In 2009 AMDD collaborated with the Tanzania Training Centre for International Health in Tanzania to hold:
- Best practices for maternal survival in Sub-Saharan Africa: A course to strengthen the capacity of non-physician clinicians and midwives
Our work is urgent
- Over 7 million pregnancy-related deaths, including maternal deaths, newborn deaths, and stillbirths happen each year. That’s 50% more than the annual deaths from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined.
- 99% of maternal deaths occur in developing countries.
- 75% of maternal deaths can be prevented by skilled health care providers backed up by emergency obstetric care (EmOC).
- We have until 2015 to reduce maternal deaths by 75% to meet Millennium Development Goal 5. We can’t do this without strong health systems that ensure universal access to EmOC.
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