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J'UD1'M4NK
Safe Mother/wad: A First Step in ·Development
wo significant shifts have occurred in
international development efforts.
The first is an agreement reached by
major funders and nongovernmental
organizations that women are at the center of the
development process.
As World Bank President James Wolfensohn
put it as part of his remarks during the World
Bank conference on Safe Motherhood this week:
"If you educate a woman, you educate a woman
and a family. If you educate a man, you educate a
man."
The second shift has occurred in the capital flow
irito developing countries. Aid from donor nations
fell from $40 billion to $37 billion from 1996 to
1997, as developed countries tightened buqgets
and cooled to the strategic importance of
international development now that the Cold War
has ended. The biggest players now are
private-sector companies, whose investments
went from $24 7 billion in 1996 to $256 billion last
year.
Wolfensohn made it clear that important
players in the private sector have joined a 10-year
partnership of governmental and nongovernment
agencies. Among them are Merck & Co.
pharmaceuticals, which has donated Invermectin,
a drug that Wolfensohn says "has all but
eradicated" river blindness in Africa, and Johnson
& Johnson, which recently announced
distribution of a drug that lights parasites
common in Central America.
What remains lacking is a fundamental political
will in many of these countries to make the health
of girls and women central to development
planning. "People don't care," he said. •As ltravel
around talking to ministers, conversations about
health and safe motherhood are very rare."
Despite a decade of international efforts by such
groups as UNICEF, the World Health
Organization, the World Bank, the U.S. Agency
for International Development, the International
Planned Parenthood Federation and tlie
Population Council, maternal mortality is now
estimated at between 585,000 and 600,000 a year,
an increase from earlier estimates, which were
probably unreliable. Current estimates are
probably not all that good either, though, since
many rural deaths are never officially reported.
Motherhood has been made safe in some places
but not others. said Richard Feachem, who directs
tht; health, nutrition and population programs at
the World Bank. During the decade-long
partnership, he said, "we've learned a lot."
He urged the representatives of organizations
involved in the Safe Motherhood effort to think
about the objectives as four concentric circles: The
outer one involves the empowerment of women in
their families, villages and governments; the
second one holds the development process in
general, the establishment of a country's
infrastructure, housing, clean water, sanitation;
T
the third involves the quality, availability and
sustainability of basic health services; and the
fourth, the core circle, holds maternal health
services.
These were patterns that emerged during
successful efforts in Malaysia, where women do
not have legal barriers, according to Datin Seri Dr.
Siti Hasmah, its first lady, who spoke at the
conference. Taboos were overcome, and family
planning has been stressed during the past decade.
Today more than 95 percent of women seek and
receive pre- and post-natal care, and 95 percent
had births that were assisted by trained personnel.
In another address. Crispus Kiyonga, minister
of health in Uganda, noted its successes in
increasing contraception use.
He also made the point that the Ugandan
parliament has 50 female members, that the vice
president is a woman and that there are several
women in the cabinet. After the country started to
pull itself together in 1986, he said, there was "a
deliberate political decision:· to encourage women
to become involved in the power structure, and
the women's vote since then has become
particularly influential.
Hillary Rodham Clinton told a wonderful story
from her recent trip to Africa. The women of a
village in Senegal had joined together to ban
female circumcision. "They have decided that
female circumcision, considered a rite of passage
for all girls, had harmed their daughters' bodies
and spirits for too long, • she said. "It was time to
end the hemorrhaging, and the infection, and the
AIDS, and the childbirth complications caused by
this deadly tradition.
"Using a skit that they showed me. these
women educated their religious leaders, their
husbands and their neighbors. And as a result,
they have banned the practice of female
circumcision in their village, and now in 13 other
villages as well.
"When I asked one of the women in this smaJJ
village what had driven her and others to try to
end such a long-standing cultural practice, she
replied simply: 'We studied human rights, and
particularly the right to health.'"
What is so clear from that story is that the lofty
concept of women·s rights being human rightswhich Clinton articulated in a shot heard round
the world at the U.N. conference on women held in
Beijing in 1995-has reached the women in
remote villages, the women who need this
assurance the most.
What was also clear from this week's conference
is that some of the most important voices and
institutions in the world of development are
committed to ending the scourge of maternal
deaths from unsafe abortions, lack of family
planning, infections, obstructed delivery and other
avoidable causes. Whether the resources will be
there wasn't clear, but they certainly should be.
This is an effort whose time is way overdue.
ihe lU.ttsbington l~o:tJt
FRIDAY, APRIL
10, 1998
�·s.·uJti Kl:ilaiA.UiaE:i ~UUKGJti
By Ann Gerlzarl and Annie Groer
Four Lovebirds
Are Having
A Ball
Amuch in the air at Wednesday night's
cocktail kickofffor the Washington Opera
h, spring. Ah, romanCe. Love was
Ball.
The fete at Anderson House, of!Du·
pool Circle, was for Sir Christopher Merer,
the British ambassador, and his relatively
recent bride, !ally Catherine, who wed on
Halloween. The Meyers will host the June
5 black tie lund-raiser at their Embassy
Rowhome.
.
.
elfOI.UJ.t1N-IM:W~9CN(';10MI'O"ol
Patrick Ewing "in the paint" with lG-yeaf"''id Pernell Dongmo.
Knicks Star Patrick Ewing Paints the Town
There was plenty of dribbling
going on when Patrick Ewing visited
the National Museum of American
Art yesterday, but it involved
paint, not a basketball.
The New York Knicks center,
who majored in fine arts while a
basketball phenom at Georgetown
University, was back in town for a
"painting party" with students
from the District's Thompson
Elementary School, reports The
Post's Sylvia Randall.
Ewing plugged the museum
exhibit "Time Out! Sports in Art"
andhisown book, "In the Paint
With Patrick." a work-in-progress
foryourig artists and their parents.
"If my mom and dad didn't
encourage me, I probably would
have stopped," said the
seven-footer, who started drawing
as a kid in Jamaica.
Ewing, his right wrist wrapped
in a blue bandage from a Dec. 20
injury, confessed it had been a long
time since he· was in a museum:
"I'm not really able to enjoy it," he
said. "I'd be considered one of the
artworks" by fans.
·
"I think this ball may be specially
blessed because helping run it are two
sets of newlyweds," Ambassador Meyer
told some 200 opera lovers, including en·
voys from the 35 nations who will host
pre-ball dinners.
While mucl1 of social Washington has
met the Meyers, many at this soiree got
their first glimpae of another pair of lovebirds: the opera ball general chairman formerly known as Betty Knight Scripps and
her new husband, investment banker Jere.
"
Placido Domingo, In back, shares a laugh with the giddy British ambassador and his wife.
my Harvey.
"I don't know ill should introduce her
as Betty, Elizabeth or Mrs. Jeremy Harvey," said artistic director Placido Domingo.
For the record, and for the moment,
she's Elizabeth Scripps-Harvey and semigiddy.
"It's wonderful. I've never been so in ·
love in my life, "she told The Post's Roxanne Roberts.
And, perhaps. never so busy. Since
their Valentihe's Day marriage in the Dominican Republic, they've honeymooned
in Hawaii and visited London (Harvey is a
Brit). They're booked on an African s3fari
in May, and after the ball it's back to Britain to see the races at Ascot, tennis at.
Wimbledon and maybe rowing at Henley
before a restin the South of France.
And what might be the secret to such
bliss (beyond the obvious means to pay
for it)?
"We're both brats," Harvey said, noting
that they're only children with much in
common. "Tonight we are trying to be
grown up, but most days we're
somewhere between 11 and 13 years old.
It's amazing fun."
.,...
m1)c bJusbington tJost
FRIDAY, APRIL 10,
1998
• And now, a multi-culti roundup
... Opera legend Luciano Pavarotti
wiU perform with the Spice Girls. Ce~
ine Dion, Jon Bon Jovi, Stevie Wonder,
Natalie Cole and Trisha Yearwood at a
benefit concert for Liberian children, Reuters reports.
1l1e June 9 concert for kids af.
icc ted by a decade of civil war is the
third annual benefit for .the Pavarotti & Friends Liberian Children"s
ViUagc.lt will be held in his hometown of Modcna,lta1y.
• Hootie & the Blowfish had lots or"
lan~ily_.~nd fri_~~d~ to c_heer them on
·. ~~~:~~
they also drew some jocks, includ·
ing Redskins Gus Frerotte and Dan
Turtc, as weU as"Baltimore Raven~
quarterback nm Harbaugh and a
clutch ofD.C. United players.
• President and Mrs. Clinton attcnd·ed a Wednesday night salute to phi·
lanthropist Paul Mellon and his late
father, Andrew Mellon, who helped
build the National Gallery of Art.
Clinton first came to the museum
as a Georgetown University stu·
dent 30 years ago, and returned a~
Arkansas governor by playing
hooky from National Govemors
�-----··
J'UDYM.&NN
Safe Motherlwod: A First Step in Development
wo significant shifts have occurred in
international development efforts.
The first is an agreement reached by
· major funders and nongovernmental
organizations that women are at the center of the
development process.
As World Bank President James Wolfensohn
put it as part of his remarks during the World
Bank conference on Safe Motherhood this week:
"If you educate a woman, you educate a woman
and a family. If you educate a man, you educate a
man."
The second shift has occurred in the capital flow
into developing countries. Aid from donor nations
fell from $40 billion to $37 billion from 1996 to
1997, as developed countries tightened bucj.gets
and cooled to the strategic importance of
international development now that the Cold War
has ended. The biggest players now are
private-sector companies, whose investments
went from $247 billion in 1996 to $256 billion last
year.
Wolfensohn made it clear that important
players in the private sector have join~ a 10-year
partnership of governmental and nongovernment
agencies. Among them are Merck & Co.
pharmaceuticals, which has donated Invermectin,
a drug that Wolfensohn says "has all but
eradicated" river blindness in Africa, and Johnson
& Johnson, which recently announced
distribution of a drug that fights parasites
common in Central America.
What remains lacking is a fundamental political
will in many of these countries to make the health
of girls and women central to development
planning. "People don't care," he said. "As I travel
around talking to ministers, conversations about
health and safe motherhood are very rare."
Despite a decade of international efforts by such
groups as UNICEF, the World Health
Organization, the World Bank, the U.S. Agency
for International Development, the International
Planned Parenthood Federation and the
Population Council, maternal mortality is now
estimated at between 585,000 and 600,000 a year,
an increase from earlier estimates, which were
probably unreliable. Current estimates are
probably not all that good either, though, since
many rural deaths are never officially reported.
Motherhood has been made safe in some places
but not others, said Richard Feachem, who directs
the, health, nutrition ~d population programs at
the World Bank. Dunng the decade-long
partnership, he said, "we've learned a lot."
He urged the representatives of organizations
involved in the Safe Motherhood effort to think
about the objectives as four concentric circles: The
outer one involves the empowerment of women in
their families, villages and governments; the
second one holds the development process in
general, the establishment of a country's
infrastructure, housing, clean water, sanitation;
T
the third iiwolves the quality, availability and
sustainability of basic health services; and the
fourth, the core circle, holds maternal health
services.
· These were patterns that emerged during
successful efforts in Malaysia, where women do
not have legal barriers, according to Datin Seri Dr.
Siti Hasmah, its first lady, who spoke at the
conference. Taboos were overcome, and family
planning has been stressed during the past decade.
Today more than 95 percent of women seek and
receive pre- and post-natal care, and 95 percent ·
had births that were assisted by trained personnel.
In another address, Crispus Kiyonga, minister
of health in Uganda, noted its successes in
increasing contraception us~.
He also made the point that the Ugandan
parliament has 50 female members, that the vice
president is a woman and that there are several
women in the cabinet. After the country started to
pull itself together in 1986, he said, there was "a
deliberate political decision~· to encourage women
to become involved in the power structure, and
the women's vote since then has become
particularly influential.
Hillary Rodham Clinton told a wonderful story
from her recent trip to Africa. The women of a
village in Senegal had joined together to ban
female circumcision. "They have decided that
female circumcision, considered a rite of passage
for all girls, had harmed their daughters' bodies
and spirits for too long," she said. "It was time to
end the hemorrhaging, and the infection, and the
AIDS, and the childbirth complications caused by
this deadly tradition.
"Using a skit that they showed me, these
women educated their religious leaders, their
husbands and their neighbors. And as a result,
they have banned the practice of female
circumcision in their village, and now in 13 other
villages as well.
.
"When I asked one of the women in this small
village what had driven her and others to try to
end such a long-standing cultural practice, she
replied simply: 'We studied human rights, and
particularly the right to health.' "
What is so clear from that story is that the lofty
concept of women's rights being human rightswhich Clinton articulated in a shot heard round
the world at the U.N. conference on women held in
Beijing in 1995-has reached the women in
remote villages, the women who need this
assurance the most.
What was also clear from this week's conference
is that some of the most important voices and
institutions in the world of development are
committed to ending the scourge of maternal
deaths from unsafe abortions, lack of family
planning, infections, obstructed delivery and other
avoidable causes. Whether the resources will be
there wasn't clear, but they certainly should be.
This is an effort whose time is way overdue.
~be bJruJbington ~PoJJt
FRIDAY, APRIL 10,
1998
�·a·alti Kl:illlll.llla.t.i aUUKGii
By Ann Gerhart and Annie Groer
Four Lovebirds
Are Having
A Ball
A
.
BYTOMAllEN-THEWA~HINGTONPO'il
Patrick Ewing "in the paint" with 10-yeai"'CCId Pernell Dongmo.
Knicks Star Patrick Ewing Paints the Town
There was plenty of dribbling
going on when Patrick Ewing visited
the National Museum of American
Art yesterday, but it involved
paint, not a basketball.
The New York Knicks center,
who majored in fine arts while a
basketball phenom at Georgetown
University, was back in town for a
"painting party" with students
from the District's Thompson
Elementary School, reports The
Post's Sylvia Randall.
Ewing plugged the museum
exhibit "Time Out! Sports in Art"
and his own book, "In the Paint
With Patrick," a work·in·progress
for yourig artists and their parents.
"If my mom and dad didn't
encourage me, I probably would
have stopped, • said the
seven·footer, who started drawing
as a kid in Jamaica.
Ewing, his right wrist wrapped
in a blue bandage from a Dec. 20
injury, confessed it had been a long
time since he· was in a museum:
"I'm not really able to enjoy it," he
said. "I'd be considered one of the
artworks" by fans.
h, spring. Ah, romanee. Love was
much in the air at Wednesday night's
cocktail kickoff for the Washington Opera
Ball.
The fete at Anderson House, offDu·
pont Circle, was for Sir Christopher Meyer,
the British ambassador, and his relatively
recent bride, lady Catherine, who wed on
Halloween. The Meyers will host the June
5 black tie fund·raiser at their Embassy
Rowhome.
·
"I think this ball may be specially
blessed because helping run it are two
sets of newlyweds," Ambassador Meyer
told some 200 opera lovers, including en·
voys from the 35 nations who will host
pre-ball dinners.
While much of social Washington has
met the Meyers, many at this soiree got
their first glimpse of another pair of lovebirds: the opera ball general chairman for·
merly known as Betty Knight Scripps and
her new husband, investment banker Jere:
my Harvey.
"I don't know if I should introduce her
as Betty, Elizabeth or Mrs. Jeremy Har·
vey, • said artistic director Placido Domingo.
· For the record, and for the moment,
she's Elizabeth Scripps-Harvey and semi·
giddy.
"It's wonderful. I've never been so in ·
love in my life," she told The Post's Rox·
anne Roberts.
Qrl)c llJa~bingtou tJost
FRIDAY, APRIL 10,
1998
BY MAI!tf. f1NK£NSTA£DT fOR THE WASHINGTON POSI
Placido Oomingo, in back, shares a laugh with the giddy British ambassador and his wife.
And, perhaps, never so busy. Since
their Valentine's Day marriage in the Dominican Republic, they've honeymooned
in Hawaii and visited London (Harvey is a
Brit). They're booked on an African safari
in May, and after the ball it's back to Brit·
ain to see the races at Ascot, tennis at.
Wimbledon and maybe rowing at Henley
before a rest in the South of France.
And what might be the secret to such
bliss (beyond the obvious means to pay
for it)?
"We're both brats," Harvey said, noting
that they're only children with much in
common. "Tonight we are trying to be
grown up, but most days we're
somewhere between 11 and 13 years old.
It's amazing fun."
• And now, a multkulti roundup
... Opera legend Luciano Pavarotti
will perform with the Spice Girls, Cel·
ine Dion, Jon Bon Jovi, Stevie Wonder,
Natalie Cole and Trisha Yearwood at a
benefit concert for Liberian chit·
dren, Reuters reports.
ll1c June 9 concert for kids af·
fected by a decade of civil war is the
third annual benefit for the Pava·
rotti & Friends Liberian Children's
Village. It will be held in his home·
town of Modena, Italy,
• Hootie & the Blowfish had lots of
farniiv and friends to cheer them on
·d
tl,.~ H'"'n" \Vr>dnr>~,-t~, nirrht Hnt
they also drew some jocks, inciud·
ing Redskins Gus Frerotte and Dan
Turk, as well as· Baltimore Ravens
quarterback lim Harbaugh and a
clutch of D.C. United players.
• President and Mrs. Clinton attend·
ed a Wednesday night salute to phi·
lanthropist Paul Mellon and his late
father, Andrew Mellon, who helped
build the National Gallery of Art.
Clinton first came to the museum
as a Georgetown University stu·
dent 30 years ago, and returned as
Arkansas governor by playing
hooky from National Govemors
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