Overview: Why Women Deliver? Why Now?
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Why this conference? Why now? The basic facts of maternal and newborn mortality worldwide: the numbers, the main causes, the practical solutions, and why 2007 is a critical year.

Saving Women’s Lives: Leading Killers and Practical Solutions
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Twenty years of research has taught us a great deal about the main killers of pregnant women and about what works to save their lives. Here are the details.

Real Stories About Women and Girls: Putting a Face on Women Deliver
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The stories of real women in Bolivia, Afghanistan and Kenya illustrate the way that targeted investments can save the lives of mothers and newborns worldwide.

The Unfortunate Facts of Life in 2007
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Detailed facts and figures about maternal mortality worldwide, the consequences of mothers’ deaths, and practical solutions to the situation.

Why So High? USA Facts on Maternal Mortality
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Americans tend to be complacent about pregnancy and childbirth, but U.S. numbers and practices could be much better, especially for minority groups.

The ABCs of the MDGs
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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) include #5, Improve Maternal Health, that is often called the heart of the MDGs, because all seven other MDGs are related to it. Here’s how.

Glossary of Terms
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Many critical terms are misunderstood or misused. This is a guide to understanding the terms of the debate over measures to reduce maternal and newborn mortality.

Conference Organizers
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The Women Deliver core planning group includes 12 government and non-governmental agencies and organizations, with another 40 NGOs in the organizing committee. Here is the list.

Maternal Mortality Scorecard
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UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Health Organization (WHO) have developed an estimate of the lifetime risk of maternal death. Here are the rankings.

Invest in women - it pays!
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Healthy women deliver for their families, communities and nations. The return on investment in women is enormous, creating a virtuous circle.

The Road to Women Deliver
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An international timeline of events leading to the Women Deliver global conference.

Women Deliver When They are Educated
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Educating girls raises lifetime incomes for them, their families and their countries. The World Bank found in a study of 100 countries that every 1 percent increase in the proportion of women with secondary education boosted a country’s annual per capita income growth rate by about 0.3 percentage points.

Women Deliver – Against HIV/AIDS
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AIDS has a woman’s face. HIV is spreading fastest among women. Of the estimated 39.5 million people living with HIV, 48 percent are women – nearly 19 million people – and half of all new infections occur among women. Cultural factors drive the pandemic but interventions targeted at women could slow the spread of HIV.

Population Action International's 2007 Global Report Card on Reproductive Risk
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Population Action International (PAI), a Washington-based nonprofit organization, has rated the countries of the world on nine indicators of reproductive risk that women face during their lifetimes. The Netherlands is the world’s safest country for women in this broad evaluation, while Niger ranks last.

The Global Campaign for the Health MDGs
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The three health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are far behind schedule: reducing child mortality (MDG 4), improving maternal health (MDG 5), and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases (MDG 6). There is clear global agreement that MDGs 4 and 5 are the most neglected and in need of most urgent attention.