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June 27, 2006

Symposium on Maternal Health and Foreign Policy: Session 1: Framing the Issue [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service, Inc.]

Speakers:	Lynn Freedman, Director, Averting Maternal Death and Disability Program; Director, Law and Policy Project; and Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Geeta Rao Gupta, President, International Center for Research on Women
Presider:	Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy and Director, U.S. Foreign Policy and Women Program, Council on Foreign Relations

This half-day symposium explored the issue of maternal mortality—defined as the death of a pregnant woman during her pregnancy or within forty-two days of delivery—remains shockingly high in most of the world. The first panel explained the magnitude of the problem and factors driving it.

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