http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/4114674.stm
'Dead Mum's Don't Cry'. - BBC TV Panorama Documentary investigating why maternal mortality remains such a huge problem in Sub-Saharan Africa ? focussing particularly on the country of Chad

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG's). A list of the goals all 191 United Nations member states have pledged to meet by 2015. Improving maternal health is Goal Number 5

http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2001/issue4/centrespread.html#mathealth
United Nations Chronicle. An explanation of Millennium goals, targets and indicators

http://www.unfpa.org/mothers/index.htm
UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) - an international development agency focussed on promoting the rights of women and safe motherhood projects

http://www.who.int/topics/maternal_health/en/
A World Health Organisation site provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working on this topic

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/cd.html
World Factbook information on Chad, including geography, climate, natural resources, population, ethnicity, health, government and economy

http://www.amdd.hs.columbia.edu/about.html
The Columbia University Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Programme was established in 1999 to work with developing countries and international agencies to improve availability, quality and utilization of emergency obstetric care.

http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/jrshiffman/research.htm
Jeremy Schiffman is an Associate Professor of Public Planning at Syracuse University New York. His research examines the historical, political and social implications on the issue of maternal mortality in Honduras in a comparison with Guatemala

www.csv.org.uk
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