Saving mothers, shaping policy: Professor Susan Fawcus’ fight for mothers

Posted in: Access to Medicines, Focus, Healthcare system, Healthcare Workers, InFocus, Latest, Reproductive Health, Spotlight

Over a long and distinguished career, Professor Susan Fawcus has become known for her work trying to reduce the deaths of mothers and babies in South Africa. In her home in Cape Town, the soft-spoken champion for health equity chats with Spotlight about her journey as a researcher, doctor, and obstetrician, and shares her fears of rising maternal mortality in an age of austerity.

Saving mothers, shaping policy: Professor Susan Fawcus’ fight for mothers

How to save more mothers from dying during childbirth

Posted in: Access to Medicines, Focus, Healthcare system, InFocus, Latest, Reproductive Health, Spotlight

COVID-19 temporarily reversed South Africa’s hard-won reduction in maternal mortality, but the death rate has now stabilised, and hopes are high that the downward trend will resume. However, if experts are right, we’re missing some crucial interventions that would further prevent what are avoidable deaths. Chris Bateman talks to some of the leading lights in the field.