The Uganda Christian University Standard’s Sam Wakhakha interviewed Dr. Jean Chamberlain Froese, Executive Director of Save the Mothers, about the state of maternal health in Uganda.

Jean's story: Saving mothers a world away. A lengthy feature on STM and the Froese family: how we manage life with a foot in both Canada and Uganda. ~ Denise Davy

Safuyati's casket is carried past me. The pallbearers, 10 Muslim men, are careful not to bring her body too close to me or other women, lest it be contaminated. Strange irony, it is, that such care is taken for the dead and so little for the living. There are about 200 gathered here, in this village in eastern Uganda, to mourn Safuyati's death. The women, in their brightly-coloured clothes, wail loudly. Another one of their own has lost what's known here as "the battle." This is childbirth Ugandan-style. ~ By Dr Jean Chamberlain-Froese

Canada’s Dr. Jean Chamberlain Froese came to the ACOG meeting here to tell attendees It was the funeral of Fatima, a colleague and a mother in Uganda who had worked and studied with her. ~ By Joe McAllister

Saving mothers … one at a time. In Uganda, women die so often in childbirth that when it happens all you need to say is “a woman lost the woman’s battle.” ~ By Wade Hemsworth

A McMaster University assistant professor who has dedicated her life to making pregnancy and childbirth safer in the developing world has been awarded a prestigious humanitarian award by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. ~ By Laura Thompson

Jean Chamberlain: Physician-Advocate for Women's Reproductive Health. Jean Chamberlain (Froese), MD, FRCSC, has been awarded the 2009 Royal College Teasdale-Corti Humanitarian Award for dedicating her life to making childbirth a safer experience for African women.

Every year 6,000 women in Uganda die from preventable pregnancy complications. It's a number Hamilton obstetrician Dr. Jean Chamberlain Froese is determined to reduce. ~ By Denise Davy

Dr. Jean Chamberlain Froese, known abroad as Dr. Jean, is one of Inter-Varsity’s exemplary alumni. She is making incredible advances for humanitarian and social change. In talking with Dr. Chamberlain Froese, it was easy to see how Inter-Varsity had helped bring her to where she is today.

Support safe motherhood - Janet. The First Lady (of Uganda), Mrs. Janet Museveni, has appealed to the Government to support the safe motherhood campaign. ~ By Barbara Among

First Lady lauds Save the Mothers. The First Lady, Hon. Janet Museveni, has praised UCU yet again, this time for the successful Save the Mothers programme. "I have been here before and applauded the HIV/ AIDS Initiative. I applaud UCU again for Save the Mothers. I am very proud of the women and UCU," she said... ~ By Emma Wafula

UCU’s Dr. Jean Chamberlain Froese meets Sarah Brown, wife of UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, while Brown visited maternity wards at Mulago Hospital during the recent Chogm meetings.

Doctor's work sparks Ugandan initiative to save mothers. McMaster assistant professor Jean Chamberlain has played a key role in the Ugandan government's recent initiatives to reduce the high number of mothers who die in childbirth in the African nation...

Doctor's work sparks Ugandan initiative to save mothers. McMaster assistant professor Jean Chamberlain has played a key role in the Ugandan government's recent initiatives to reduce the high number of mothers who die in childbirth in the African nation...

Part 2 of 2: The struggle to reduce maternal mortality. Consider this: in the 20th century, there were more maternal mortalities than deaths from tuberculosis, suicide, traffic accidents and AIDS combined.

Part 1 of 2: The struggle to reduce maternal mortality. Consider this: in the 20th century, there were more maternal mortalities than deaths from tuberculosis, suicide, traffic accidents and AIDS combined.

Birth of a crisis: Canada's once enviable ranking in maternal care has plummeted. Mom's the word, or at least it should be; after all, every last one of us was born of a mother. Tomorrow the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) will open its annual general meeting in Ottawa where it's expected the "crisis" in maternal care in Canada will be among the topics. ~ By Licia Corbella

Having babies shouldn’t be fatal. A woman lies on a cold, dirty floor giving birth. In other rooms and in hallways, women writhe in pain as they labour alone in childbirth. Many will die. These are scenes that play out over and over again in hospitals in developing countries. ~ By Denise Davy

Sylvia Ssinabulya, a Ugandan parliamentarian and a student at UCU, is Canada-bound. Ssinabulya, a Mityana MP who is enrolled in UCU’s Save the Mother’s Programme, is getting ready for the upcoming trip which will have her highlight the plight of Uganda’s mothers to Canadian audiences. ~ By Thomas Froese and Brian Semujju

Save the Mothers “Pioneers” Graduate. MUKONO - Save the Mothers, a unique training program at Uganda Christian University that trains professionals to help save Uganda’s vulnerable mothers, has fired another salvo into the war on maternal mortality with the graduation of its first class. ~ By Thomas Froese

Canadian doctor faithful in the trenches. By the time this column is published, Jean Chamberlain Froese, executive director of Save The Mothers (www.savethemothers.org) will be settling in to a new life with a new job, living in a new little bungalow in Mukono, Uganda. ~ Patricia Paddey

CBC News InDepth February 2004