Foreign Affairs committee  Let me continue on the point. For the child survival project that I work with in Zambia, where the government does not have health care workers on the ground, all of the groups now, UNICEF included, have looked at training people within the community on community-integrated manag

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Dewar, I don't know, because reproductive health can either be an umbrella, with maternal and child health as part of that, or maternal, newborn, and child health is the umbrella and reproductive health is part of that. So I have not heard of countries separating this out.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. It would be ideal to have obstetricians and gynecologists in most of these countries, more than just the ones who usually exist. It's not realistic, unfortunately. In our coalition, when we talk about skilled or trained health workers, we're talking about the same gr

Foreign Affairs committee  I just wanted to clarify, Madame Deschamps, that family planning is not abortion. Family planning is planning your family, how many children you want to have and when, and birth spacing. Abortion is part of reproductive health, and 85% of maternal deaths have nothing to do with a

Foreign Affairs committee  As well, Madame Deschamps, we did actually send a letter to the Prime Minister's Office, back in the fall, and subsequently had meetings with the sherpa team from the Department of Foreign Affairs, as well as representatives from the Prime Minister's Office, in the fall.

Foreign Affairs committee  Sure. Mr. Pearson, with regard to what's killing women, there's hypertension or eclampsia, as you may have heard. There's also postpartum hemorrhage. That's when the placenta is delivered and it's not completely taken out of the uterus. Part remains behind, and a woman bleeds

Foreign Affairs committee  Hi. My name is Teresa Chiesa, and I am a health specialist and program manager at CARE Canada. It is my hope today that I can clarify questions pertaining to maternal, newborn, and child health and provide information on the economic and social costs that justify our investing in