Amie Wilson, Ammalife's PhD researcher, has just returned from a visit to Sudan and Ethiopa. In Sudan she met up with Dr Sophie Webster on her Flight for Every Mother mission. In Ethiopa's capital, Amie spoke to delegates at FIGO's Congress about her research on transport in pregnancy. Her research has recently been published by FIGO.
If you have first hand experience of working on a Labour Ward in a low resource setting, your opinion matters to a team of researchers from Bristol & Birmingham Universities. Dr Jo Crofts is eager to find out what you think so that she can design a clinical trial to find out what works in implementing [...]
Soha leaves Malawi to return to her work in the UK after a life changing 10 months volunteering in Malawi. Here she sends us some pictures which sum up that time.
Soha is nearing the end of her time working in Malawi. Catch up with her news here. She tells us about her struggle to save the life of a mother with severe sepsis. Please read it & see why Ammalife needs to exist. In another post, Soha tells us about how the basic equipment & training [...]
Meet Dr Sophia Webster who is currently winging her way across sub-Saharan Africa on a Flight For Every Mother mission. http://vimeo.com/68839627 You can follow her challenging journey, and read more about the risks that most sub-Saharan African women face when they become pregnant, through her online blog. Clearblue will donate $1 for every subscriber to Sophia's [...]
Laurence Wood is a recently retired obstetrician who is currently working in rural Tanzania with Clinical Officers. Laurence has long been a supporter of Ammalife. We're pleased to be able to share his blog with a wider audience. It's honest, insightful and deeply moving.
Most mothers' deaths can be prevented with emergency care; that's why making sure that mothers can reach expert help speedily is so important. Amie Wilson, Ammalife's PhD researcher, investigated the situation in some of the poorest parts of the world where many mothers are dying. With no ambulances, how do women reach expert help? Sometimes, the [...]
Ammalife volunteers grabbed the chance to talk to hundreds of people about our work at the Community Day in June. The weather was glorious and Birmingham University estimated that about 8000 people turned up to enjoy themselves and discover more. Many came over to our colourful stall and, while the children deliberated over which sweets to [...]
Arri, our Chair of Trustees, has been a professor for a year and on Wednesday 5 June he completed the ceremonies with his Inaugral Lecture. Arri used the opportunity to draw attention to the plight of the 800 women each day, for whom pregnancy becomes a death sentence. Arri made the case for the work that [...]
Women themselves can be life savers if they get together to plan and prioritise. We've been working with a world-class team at UCL to analyse the evidence from clinical studies where women came together within their community to identify problems they have in pregnancy and childbirth. Then the women themselves devised strategies for tackling these, with [...]
