The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting recently identified maternal mortality as a priority issue that demands more coverage–and has made a commitment to support reporting projects that draw attention to the under-reported issue of international maternal mortality. In January, I blogged about Marco Vernaschi’s project in Guinea Bissau. The center is now supporting additional projects on maternal mortality–one in India and another in Mexico.
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
India Casts a Light on Mothers in the Dark, Hanna Ingber Win
“…This project will assess India’s efforts to improve its maternal health and explore why Assam, a northeastern state known for its beauty yet plagued by high levels of poverty, has the nation’s highest maternal mortality rate. Reporter Hanna Ingber Win will travel with boat clinics along the Brahmaputra River to visit remote villages that do not have electricity, toilets or roads, let alone health services…”
Learn more about the India project.
The Struggle for Health in Chiapas, Samuel Loewenberg
“…Samuel Loewenberg reports from two of Mexico’s poorest states, Chiapas and Oaxaca, on the social and political forces that impact the health crises affecting the poor and indigenous communities here. Chiapas and Oaxaca have the worst records in the country for maternal mortality, deaths by cervical cancer, and diarrheal illness among children. The rate of infant death for Chiapas is three times that of the natioanl average, and nearly twice as many new mothers die in Oaxaca as in wealthier parts of the country…”
Learn more about the Mexico project.
Visit the Pulitzer Center blog, Untold Stories.
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