Join us for the Annual General Meeting to find out all about our work in 2013/14. It's your chance to meet the faces behind the names, ask questions and offer advice and suggestions. We meet in the Education Resource Centre (ERC) at Birmingham Women's Hospital at 11.00 am on Sunday 21 September. Coffee and croissants are [...]
What are you thinking about? And how do you imagine research? It's not all just laboratories and white coats... You can learn more about what researchers really do if you come along to the Think Corner in the Pavilions Shopping Centre of Birmingham city centre in the next couple of weeks (between now and Sunday 14th September). Today Ammalife [...]
Ammalife researcher, Dr Amie Wilson, assisted the team from UCL in analysing data from women's groups in Malawi, Bangladesh, India and Nepal. The results show that the benefits of participatory learning groups are outstanding. As many as half of all the 800 mothers who die each day could survive childbirth. Now that work has been has [...]
Many of you will know of the heroic efforts of Shakeel Ahmed to reach mothers in some of the most inaccessible villages in the mountains of Havelian in North West Pakistan. Ammalife is proud to have sponsored and co-funded this important life-saving work. To mark Shakeel's work, all of which is voluntary, Ammalife presented him with [...]
Double congratulations! On the same day that Ammalife's first researcher, Dr Amie Wilson, was awarded her PhD, she received praise from the editors of the Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review. Her work on Emergency Transport for Mothers in low resource countries was judged by them to be one of the top articles of 2013. Here at Ammalife [...]
Congratulations Preth! For safely reaching Lukla having successfully climbed to Everest base camp. Your journey sounds like a truly incredible experience. We've copied an excerpt from your recent message to us below: "Our main guide was rushed via helicopter to hospital after stress fractures to his spine, one of the travellers had an asthma attack, I felt light headed [...]
We're delighted that the textbooks we packed up for Malawi in March have arrived safely. Alex Sembo, pictured, collected all 9 boxes containing more than 200 textbooks donated by staff at Birmingham Women's Hospital. Some of the boxes took a bit of a bashing but the books themselves were undamaged. Alex collected the books from the [...]
You get the idea - 3 mountains in 24 hours! B'ham's Wilderness Medicine Society is climbing the highest peaks in England, Scotland and Wales in an adrenalin fuelled 24 hours next month. They'll be drawing attention to the perils facing mothers in some of the poorest parts of the world and raising funds to fuel Ammalife's [...]
We often repeat the statistical headlines of maternal mortality in the developing world, so in case all the numbers seem somewhat abstract, we'd like to tell you a story... Ammalife supporter Preth de Silva is currently undertaking elective medical work in Ghana. On the first day of his time at the hospital, he found a woman lying on [...]
What will YOU be doing to celebrate the Spring bank holiday? We're delighted that Afshin Bemani will be running the Edinburgh marathon for Ammalife on 25th May! And not only running, but running fast! After completing nine previous marathons he has decided to put himself to the ultimate test, with 26 miles in less than 4.5 hours! We [...]
