Aruna Uprety
Nepal
Biography
I completed my MD from Kharvkov Medical Institute and postdoctoral studies from the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands. I have many papers on national and international journals on women and health. I had also advocated for making abortion legal in Nepal and later on lobbied with policy makers to provide training to nurses so that they could deliver safe abortion services in remote areas of Nepal. I have translated books from Hesperian published, “Where women have no doctors “, A health guidelines for women with disability and†A book for midwives†(http://hesperian.org/2014/02/05/3-womens-health-titles-released-in-nepali/). I have also worked as public health and maternal child health specialist in Afghanistan, India, Sri Lanka, Iran, Tibet, Iran and most remote parts of Nepal. I also write regularly in national and internal paper on the issue of women and nutrition, women and mental health, role of midwife in women’s health.
Abstract
Abstract : Maternal health in Nepal: Progress and challenges