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National Alliance For Maternal Health And Human Rights
(NAMHHR)
January-April 2010 Issue 1
Work Done So Far
q E-group: Our e-group id is [email protected].
Sign up at t he earliest for regular updates!
q Blog: We now have a web presence in the form of this blog-
http:/ / namhhr.blogspot.com/ .
q A Planning Meeting for a Campaign on the Implementation
of the
SC order on the NM BS (National Maternity Benefit
Scheme) was
held on the 23rd of March 2010 in New Delh i, which was
attended by
Right to Food Activists as well. W ork is already in full
swing
to launch this campaign that aims to promote equal rights
for
all pregnant women
q Quart erly Meeting of SC members held on 13th April
through
a
Conference Call via www.sabsebolo.com
Upcoming Events
q HRLN-NAM HH R National Consultation being planned
for 26th-27th June, 2010
q State Level RTI applications regarding NMBS data to be
filed
in partn er states in April-May 2010 under the
Implementation
of Supreme Court Order on N MBS Campaign
q Launch of Campaign and Alliance: State Level meetings to
be
held in partn er states from M ay 2010 onwards to launch the
alliance and the Implementation of the NMBS Campaign
Partner Updates
q Kalyani Meena shared about the formation of the N AMH H R
in a meeting of the Jharkhand W omen's Health Network.
The JW HN has shown interest in getting involved
q Articles on EKJUT's work have been published in the Lancet
and the T IME Magazine!
q NAM H HR welcomed Sebanti Gh osh, ASHA, W est Bengal
into its Steering Committee
q H ealthwatch Forum (U .P.) had a meeting on 24th March
where two representatives to the national alliance were
chosen and planning was done for the Celebration of
International Day of Action for Womens' Health to be held
on the 28th of May.q ASH A, West Bengal coordinated with H RLN
to organize the
workshop on Reproductive Rights in March for NGO
Some Key Updates on Maternal Health
q Mat ernal mortal ity for 181count ries, 1980-2008: a systemat
ic
analysis of progress towards Millennium D evelopment Goal 5
htt p:/ / www.thelancet.com/ journals/ lancet/ article/
PIIS0140-6736(10)60518-1/ fulltext
q Resolution on 'eliminating MMM through the empowerment of
women' adopted at the UN Committee on the Status of W omen (CSW
)
session in March this year http:/ / www.un.org/ womenwatch/ daw/
beijing15/
outcomes/ L%206%20_%20M
M.Advance%20unedited.pdf
q On the request of the Government of India, UN FPA commissioned
this
concurrent evaluation study of JSY in five high focus states of
Bihar, Madhya
Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh: http:/ /
india.unfpa.org/ drive/
JSYConcurrentAssessment.pdf
q How Bangladesh controlled MMR/ IMR with midwives
involvement:
http:/ / www.who.int/ bulletin/ volumes/ 88/ 4/ 09-069385/ en/
index.html
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