New Approaches To Maternal Mortality In Africa

Panel 3 Chair Henrietta Moore (Social Anthropology, Cambridge) Godfrey Mbaruku (African Health, Tanzania) Health Systems/ policy towards reduction of maternal and neonatal deaths Caroline Bledsoe (Social Anthropology, Northwestern) 'A drug of many uses': Misoprostol and the language of ambiguity in the ‘management’ of pregnancy and labour in the US and West Africa Rachel Chapman (Social Anthropology, Washington) Maternal Mortality, HIV/AIDS and the New Counter-Geography of Survival in Central Mozambique