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The UK government is deeply complicit in Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza, including by licensing arms sales to Israel. I introduced a Bill to Parliament to end these sales. It returns to Parliament tomorrow. The government should accept my Bill and stop arming war crimes.

Honoured to have joined Ursula Gazeley & colleagues to have collaborated on this analysis! Do read her 🧵 below to find out about recovery from severe maternal morbidity in Kenya. School of Life Course & Population Sciences

BREAKING: The Lancet has just published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

The government has ended the funding pause on UNRWA - effective immediately. This begins with £21m to support the humanitarian response in Gaza, provide essential services for refugees across the region, and alleviate the suffering of civilians. Read more ➡️

Killed by whom?

On what is in some ways the hardest day of my year but in other ways the most positive, as we release the latest report from the MBRRACE UK confidential enquiries into maternal deaths and morbidity, it is important we recognise the families and friends of the women who have died

A new The Lancet Global Health study by Ursula Gazeley @PolizzAn @jm_aburto et al reveals staggering global inequalities in maternal health, with the lifetime risk of maternal near miss as high as 1 in 6 in Guatemala➡️ demography.ox.ac.uk/news/global-in… The Leverhulme Trust London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine University of Oxford Oxford Population Health (OxPop)

🆕study highlights the inequalities in maternal health outcomes across the globe. Researchers London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine looked at the risk of maternal near miss across 40 countries, finding substantial global and regional inequalities. Read more 👉 lshtm.ac.uk/research/centr…

Too many women still face high risks of maternal death or near-miss. In Guatemala, a 15-year-old has a 1 in 6 lifetime chance of MNM, while in Vietnam it's 1 in 269. Nine countries have a 1 in 20 or higher risk, seven in sub-Saharan Africa. Ursula Gazeley

NEW: A study from Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and @lshtm has highlighted inequalities in maternal health outcomes across the world. Researchers analysed the risk of maternal near misses across 40 countries, finding substantial global and regional inequalities. ➡️ ox.ac.uk/news/2024-10-1…

🌍 regions vary ~2x relative %, ⬆️100x absolute numbers dying in two biggest groups - obstetric hemorrhage & hypertensive disorders of pregnancy & childbirth - this really hammers home the continuing huge burden of maternal deaths from *preventable* causes #HealthForAll #SRHR