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 [...]
"I am always surprised by the postnatal ward summary - it normally goes something like this: on the postnatal ward we have 70 mothers, 40 of whom have their babies with them. My immediate thought is - what happened to the other 30 babies?" Dr Soha Sobhy is an Obs & Gynae doctor from London who has [...]
Dr Sadia Malick is about to return to the mountains of Havelian in Pakistan to find out how Ammalife's Emergency Transport Scheme is evolving. Shakeel Ahmed, the local pharmacist who manages the Ammalife project, says that local people are looking forward to seeing Dr Sadia after a 9 year interval. Here's why. It was 2000 and [...]
Ammalife are supporting the establishment of a clinical link between Birmingham Women's Hospital and GoGo Chatinkha Maternity Unit, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Malawi. The link was launched with a fantastic fundraising event at "Akamba". It was a fantastic night with live music, drumming and fire eating! Guests of honour Dr Bonus Makanani (GoGo Chatinkha Head of [...]
Venue: Good Hope Hospital, Partnership and Learning Centre, Rectory Road, Sutton Coldfield, B74 4RR Date: Friday 11 May 2012 Time: 2pm-4pm Presented by: Nina Gora, Activism Coordinator for Oxfam in the Midlands and Oxfam Birth Rights’ Campaign Coordinator Speakers: Andrew Mitchell - MP for Sutton Coldfield and Secretary of State for International Development, Amie Wilson - [...]
