New free CD-ROM: safe motherhood strategies: a review of the evidence (now available in Spanish).

• Auteur: Jacobs, Jean Marc

This CD-Rom results from collaboration between DFID, the European Commission, the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp University and John Snow International-UK.

In order to further its commitment to the reduction of maternal mortality, and to ensure that its strategy and policies are based on the available evidence, the EC commissioned 19 scientific background papers which reviewed the published and 'grey' literature on particular topics. These papers were discussed at an expert meeting in Brussels in November 2000.

The papers were published by ITM in book form in English and French and over 4,000 copies of the book have been distributed to date. In August 2003, a first edition of a CD-Rom containing the French and English versions was created to meet the continuing demand for these articles.

This second edition, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), also contains the...