Reducing Maternal Mortality in Low Income Countries: a societal challenges?

The French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS) is one of the main independent European Think Tanks on geopolitical and strategic issues.

IRIS, a public-interest association created in 1991, is a French think tank on geopolitical and strategic issues. It is the only international think tank to have been set up as a totally private initiative in an independent approach. IRIS activities can be divided into four fields: research, organisation of events and meetings, publishing and training.

The Global Health think tank aims to make the public more than mere onlookers of the issues that shape the future of global health. Under the leadership of Nathalie Ernoult and Dr. Anne Senequier the think tank’s ambition is to create an open and lively space for reflection where the powers that influence standards and regulatory frameworks in global health, are examined and analysed by its network of experts.

Abstract:

For decades, the fight against maternal mortality focused on hospital care that could theoretically prevent a woman from dying. The maternal mortality level had thus become an indicator of health care system performance. This report argues that, as of 2016, maternal death should also be considered as the results of choices made by society.