The AMDD Program was established in 1999 to work with developing countries and international agencies to improve the availability, quality and utilization of emergency obstetric care.

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Averting Maternal Death and Disability Program
Columbia University, Heilbrunn Center for Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health
60 Haven Avenue, B-3
New York, New York
10032, United States

Phone: 212-304-5200
Fax: 212-544-1933
E-mail: kl2324@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.amddprogram.org

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AMDD and its project partners work with governments to:

*Analyze the national as well as local medical, social and policy obstacles to providing emergency obstetric care.

*Upgrade health facilities to address the causes of death and disability, including missing or poor equipment, lack of emergency drugs, insufficient blood supplies, inadequate or non-existent life-saving and other skills, and provider attitudes.

*Engage communities in improving and extending health care services.

For more information, please visit our website: www.amdd.hs.columbia.edu/