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[policywonk]

Thought I'd start a new thread to keep up the conversation about the issues that we were concentrating on at the G20 (maternal and newborn health and a low-carbon future, among other things).

Maybe we can get a bit of momentum going. The next big event will be the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings at the end of April. This will be the first opportunity to assess how the IMF proposes to use the new money it's been given, and what sort of conditions will be attached to the money given or loaned to developing countries.

I'll kick things off with a link to Oxfam Man's excellent blog

No problem JJ. So long as you keep paying your subs

I remember that woman's story - it was shocking.

I know what you mean Lenin - there is something disempowering about looking at lots of depressing stuff unless someone suggests something for you to DO about it.

Just FYI, JJ's link isn't particularly depressing, and I think she posted it up as an example of a single issue we could coalesce around (childbed fever - postnatal septicaemia)

Following on from Fred's suggestion, here's something about global shortage of midwives.