Safe Motherhood Case Studies: Learning from South Asia

Correspondence and reprint requests should be addressed to: Dr. Jennifer Amery Senior Health Adviser, South Asia Region DFID India UK Department for International Development (DFID) B28 Tara Crescent Qutab Institutional Area New Delhi 110 016 India Email: [email protected] Fax: (91) (11) 2652 9296 Generations of our children and grandchildren may rightly look back and wonder how so many women were allowed to die from preventable conditions in pregnancy and childbirth in the first decades of the 21st century, when so much effort was being invested in biomedical, space and weapons technologies.