In Cameroon, the chance of dying in childbirth is more than 30 times higher than anywhere in the U.S. The World Health Organization estimates that 830 women die each day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and child-birth and most are in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The mission of the CAMEROON-ARIZONA PARTNERSHIP is to eliminate preventable maternal and early neonatal mortality by training and retaining physicians in Cameroon, for Cameroon, as well as building a long-term, mutually beneficial partnership between our communities. We work with a model that has been proven successful at increasing the number of trained specialist doctors in sub-Saharan African countries. We help our colleagues in Cameroon train doctors. These doctors, in turn, will help train the next group of doctors.
