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MDGs: Different Planets

 

This report was a compelling analysis contrasting health care in Sweden, the world’s safest country to give birth, and Niger, the most dangerous. As one of the MDGs is to reduce maternal morality by three quarters, ‘Different Planets’ told the world about the significance of mothers not dying during childbirth and the privilege of children surviving birth and their first few years.

 

 

 

The jury said:

“The judges hesitated before deciding this award, aware that an award of this kind to the Guardian will be seen by some as prosaic and unoriginal But the judges saw nothing wrong in rewarding outstanding journalism in a paper that repeatedly and over decades has demonstrated its commitment and excellence in reporting from the developing world, and in engaging and challenging its readers to think as well as to care. This piece was an excellent example of that.”

 

Joanna Moorhead said:

“I was delighted and honoured to receive this award.  This piece felt to me like one of the most important pieces of journalism I have ever done, because it was telling the story of a group of people whose stories I feel often goes unreported – the stories of pregnant women, and new mothers, and very small infants, in developing countries.

I felt I was able to combine my experience of having had babies myself with my journalistic experience to produce this piece: and I hope to use the fact that I have received this award to persuade my editors to allow me to travel to other parts of the world, and to report again on what life is like for mothers-to-be and new mothers and their babies, in the future.”

 

 

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