A series of now well-established, affordable and universally accepted health care interventions, developed with support from Carnegie Corporation of New York, have contributed to making pregnancy and childbirth safer for women and newborns in many parts of the world. Research supported in the 1980s and 90s under the Corporation's Africa grantmaking helped to firmly establish maternal mortality as a human rights issue.
Citation: Kenneth Walker. Preventing Maternal Mortality. (Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2011)
Program: International Peace and Security
