[World Council of Churches] Gracia Violeta Ross, World Council of Churches program executive for HIV, reproductive health and pandemics, shared insights with a Bogotá, Colombia, workshop entitled, “The role of self-care interventions to reduce maternal mortality in the Latin America and the Caribbean region.”
The workshop, which took place Oct. 23-25, was organized by the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization. Ross contributed ideas on the value of self-care interventions and actions for reducing maternal mortality for underserved communities.
All communities are spaces of great potential for self-care in reproductive health and maternal mortality reduction, Ross said. “Self-care strategies are the materialization of equity and empowerment for women, giving them back the ability to decide about their bodies and their reproductive health,” she said. “Many health inequities prevail in the world today, one of the most unjust being maternal mortality.”
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