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Saturday, March 8 • 11:00am - 12:30pm
She Doesn’t Have to Die: Challenges of Lifesaving Care for Women in Under-Resourced Regions

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Despite the positive news from international organizations that worldwide maternal mortality has dropped by 47 percent since 1990, progress against maternal death remains slow in many of the places where Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) works. MSF staff who have worked or are currently working in some of these maternal mortality hot spots will discuss the challenges they have faced in trying to help save lives.
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Jason Cone

Communications Director, Doctors Without Borders
Jason Cone is the Communications Director for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the United States. In this capacity, he has overseen crisis and advocacy communications campaigns for MSF, ranging from the Haiti earthquake and cholera epidemic, to global childhood... Read More →

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Debbie Price

Certified Nurse Midwife, Reproductive Health Specialist Advisor, Doctors Without Borders
Debbie Price is a certified nurse-midwife and has been working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) since 1998. Her field experience includes postings as medical coordinator in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Sudan (Darfur), and Haiti... Read More →
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Dr. Helen Bygrave

HIV/TB Medical Advisor, Southern Africa Medical Unit, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Dr. Helen Bygrave trained at Cambridge University and University College London School of Medicine, qualifying as a General Practitioner in 1995. For the last eight years she has worked for MSF supporting HIV/TB programs across Africa and Asia and currently works as one of MSF’s... Read More →
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Dr. Rodnie Senat-Delva

Medical Director, MSF's Centre de Reference des Urgences Obtetricales (CRUO) in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Dr. Rodnie Senat-Delva is a medical doctor from Haiti, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. Dr. Senat-Delva embarked on her first of three MSF assignments in 2008 and is currently the medical director at MSF's 146-bed obstetrical emergency hospital, Centre de Reference des... Read More →
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Dr. Séverine Caluwaerts

Obstetrician/Gynecologist Advisor, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Dr. Séverine Caluwaerts became an obstetrician/gynecologist in 2007 in Belgium, her home country. During her residency she spent one year in South Africa where she cared for a large population of HIV positive women. She then undertook her first assignment with MSF in 2008 in Sierra... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2014 11:00am - 12:30pm CST
Music Bldg: Sateren Auditorium Augsburg College
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