Dr. Linda Bartlett This is Me

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1. 1. www.expatexchange.net

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   Published on: 10/8/2007   Last Visited: 10/8/2007

   Photo Credit: Linda Bartlett, Center for Disease Control

2. 2. UK Women's Link with Afghan Women : News Release : 06 November 2002:Afghanistan is among worst places on globe for women's health, say UNICEF and CDC

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   Published on: 11/6/2002   Last Visited: 2/6/2006

   "For the Afghan women of childbearing age included in our surveys, the leading cause of death was pregnancy and childbirth," said Linda Bartlett, M.D., a medical officer with CDC's reproductive health program and leader of the surveys."These women are dying needlessly.Most of these deaths could have been avoided, which suggests important opportunities for prevention."
   
   In some remote regions, UNICEF and CDC health workers, including Bartlett, traveled house-to-house for several days on horseback to interview families about the deaths of women in their communities.

3. 3. TheStar.com - News - Saving mothers . . . and their babies

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   Published on: 2/4/2007   Last Visited: 2/4/2007

   "If you go to the most remote villages," says Dr. Linda Bartlett, the Canadian who heads the UN agency's maternal and child health program in Afghanistan, "and if you ask people what are the problems, they will tell you, `Our women are dying.'"
   
   The numbers are staggering.
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   "A lot has been done, but there's a lot that still needs to be done," says Bartlett.
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   Bartlett conducted a thorough study of maternal death in Afghanistan prior to 2002 - its results were published in British medical journal The Lancet in 2005 - and she is convinced that progress is being made.
   
   "We believe maternal mortality and fetal death have declined because of increased access to care," she says.
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   "Funding is not at the level that it was," says Bartlett.
   
   Born in Montreal, Bartlett graduated from medical school at Memorial University in St. John's and earned a graduate degree in public health at the University of British Columbia.
   
   The trajectory of her career eventually led her to a job as an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.From there, the whims of fate and fascination somehow guided her to Central Asia.
   
   "It's part of my destiny," she says."It's my vocation to work in maternal health in international settings."
   
   Bartlett will be departing soon, but many others, both Afghans and expatriates, will continue the uphill struggle to keep this country's women from dying while in the very act of giving life.