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One of the aspirations in the letter is between now and 2030 to cut by two-thirds maternal mortality.

Dr. Susan Desmond Hellman is CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. On January 26th, she spoke with Scientific American about the goals the

International Philanthropic Foundation put forth in its just released annual letter.

This has been an area that's so important and so challenging. It is essential to think about

all aspects of that. For example, one of the areas that the foundation is now funding is family planning, so that a woman or a young woman in particular can decide when she wants to become pregnant, that that's a decision she can make, and she can space her children. And so I think it starts with that. We also have a big

focus on nutrition. So a mom having a good nutritional status when she's pregnant, again, very

helpful. And then again, working with local groups, with ministries of health to make sure that a woman

can deliver at a facility

where things are there available should she need the kind of care that having the baby at home

wouldn't enable her to have. For the full conversation between Gates Foundation CEO Susan Desmond

Hellman and Scientific American Editor-in-Chief Mariette de Christina, look on our website for the upcoming Science Talk podcast.

Thanks for the minute for Scientific Americans' 60 Second Science. I'm Steve Merski.