Gates CEO: Let's Shrink Maternal Mortality

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🗓️ 27 January 2015

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Susan Desmond-Hellmann talks about some of what needs to be done to make a reality of the foundation's aspiration to cut maternal mortality by two thirds by 2030

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0:00.0	This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science.
0:05.0	I'm Steve Mursky.
0:06.3	Got a minute?
0:08.0	One of the aspirations in a letter is between now and 2030
0:11.9	to cut by two-thirds maternal mortality.
0:14.6	Dr. Susan Desmond Helmin is CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
0:19.2	On January 26th, she spoke with Scientific American about the goals the International Film
0:24.4	Foundation put forth in its just released annual letter.
0:28.1	This has been an area that's so important and so challenging it is essential to think about all aspects of that.
0:37.9	For example, one of the areas that the foundation is now funding is family planning so that a woman or a young
0:45.2	woman in particular can decide when she wants to become pregnant that that's a
0:50.5	decision she can make and she can space her children.
0:54.4	And so I think it starts with that.
0:56.1	We also have a big focus on nutrition.
0:58.2	So a mom being having a good nutritional status when she's pregnant again very helpful and then again
1:06.6	working with local groups with ministries of health to make sure that a woman can
1:11.5	deliver at a facility where things are there available should she need
1:17.2	the kind of care that having the baby at home wouldn't enable her to have.
1:20.7	For the full conversation between Gates Foundation CEO Susan Desmond Helmin and Scientific
1:26.0	American Editor and Chief Mariette Christina, look on our website for the upcoming Science Talk
1:31.2	Podcast. Thanks for the minute.
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