Half the Sky Movement: Christy Turlington Burns on Health

Christy Turlington Burns discusses the importance of training more health care workers. Christy Turlington Burns is an American model best known for representing Calvin Klein. Christy Turlington Burns most recently founded Every Mother Counts, an advocacy and mobilization campaign to increase education and support for maternal mortality reduction globally. EMC was founded after the completion of Christy’s documentary, “No Woman, No Cry,” about maternal mortality in Tanzania, Bangladesh, Guatemala, and the United States.

Half The Sky Movement : http://www.halftheskymovement.org
Every Mother Counts : http://www.everymothercounts.org/
CrowdRise: http://www.crowdrise.com/halfthesky

Transcript:

“One of the things that I get most excited about, that I think most people in the maternal/newborn child health community are rallying around, is the idea of training up more health care workers, getting more midwives out there, because we don’t have enough doctors to provide care, and not everybody needs a doctor to provide their care. If you’re having a straightforward birth, you do not need an obstetrician. You do not need a surgery.”