BBC Documentary Featuring RAISE Advocacy and Medical Advisor Wins Award
Viewers voted Grace Under Fire the fourth best BBC documentary of 2009. Grace Under Fire follows RAISE’s Dr. Grace Kodindo, who is “world renowned for her fight to stop women dying unnecessarily in pregnancy and childbirth” according to the BBC, as she travels through the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
In the documentary, Dr. Kodindo talks to women and men who have been affected by fighting and investigates the dire state of reproductive health services in the area.
February 12, 2010 | RAISE News
RAISE Calls for Reproductive Health to Be Incorporated into Humanitarian Response to Haiti
The earthquake of January 12, 2010 has devastated Haiti, already the world’s fourth poorest nation. Given the massive scope of the destruction and the widespread poverty preceding the earthquake, this state of emergency will be protracted, and will require one of the largest humanitarian response efforts in recent history.
RAISE urges the humanitarian community to incorporate reproductive health (RH) into its response at all stages. Risks to RH dramatically increase in emergencies, and women and girls are especially vulnerable. More »
January 15, 2010 | RAISE News
RAISE to Host Screening of BBC Documentary Grace Under Fire featuring Grace Kodindo
On November 23, RAISE will host a screening of the BBC documentary Grace Under Fire. The documentary features the work of Grace Kodindo, MD, Chadian OBGYN and assistant clinical professor of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health.
Dr. Kodindo has fought to save lives in ill-equipped maternity wards in her native Chad in Central Africa for many years. While Dr. Kodindo has treated women suffering the effects of neglect, her experiences never prepared her for the real-life stories of inhumanity, lack of critical reproductive healthcare, and sexual violence she hears from those caught up in the long-running conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) featured in Grace Under Fire. More »
November 10, 2009 | RAISE News
RAISE Featured in Latest Issue of Forced Migration Review
Check out RAISE’s latest article, ‘IDP health in Colombia: needs and challenges,’ published in September’s issue of Forced Migration Review, the world’s most widely read and consulted publication on refugee and internal displacement issues.
Increasingly, growing numbers of displaced people remain in flux for years, even decades. This article examines the immediate and longer-term reproductive health needs of the second largest displaced population in the world.
September 9, 2009 | RAISE News
RAISE’s Grace Kodindo, OBGYN, featured in new BBC Documentary on Reproductive Health in Emergencies
A new BBC documentary features the work of Dr. Grace Kodindo, Medical and Advocacy Adviser for RAISE. “Grace Under Fire” follows Dr. Kodindo, a Chadian OBGYN, through North Kivu in the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, as she talks to women and men who have been affected by fighting and investigates the shattered state of reproductive health services in the area.
Dr. Kodindo’s longtime work to prevent maternal mortality in Chad was the subject of another BBC documentary ‘Dead Mums Don’t Cry’ (2005), produced by Television for the Environment (TVE); in May of this year, Dr. Kodindo was honoured by the Danish government for her efforts to prevent needless maternal death and disability, and her contributions towards the realisation of gender equality and Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 3. More »
September 8, 2009 | RAISE News