Welcome to MCAI
MCAI (Maternal & Childhealth Advocacy International) is a charity dedicated to saving the lives of seriously ill pregnant women, children and babies in countries where there is extreme poverty. With improved training, care, medicines, equipment and advocacy many deaths can be prevented.
Since 1995 MCAI has been saving lives and preventing suffering through better healthcare.
IHPI
MCAI is a major supporter of the International Health Protection Initiative. A collective movement of individuals, organisations and institutions who have agreed to lobby to UN to act to uphold the Geneva Conventions. Visit the website or click here to view a presentation.
The 3E Project:healthcare
The 3E Project:healthcare is our joint fundraising venture with SIGBI. Over the next three years we hope to raise £300,000 for our emergency care programme in The Gambia. Click here to find out more.
DVD and CD Sale!
Together with ALSG we have developed a range of easy -to-use comprehensive teaching aids for all health professionals and medical students involved in the emergency care of mother, neonates and children. For a limited time only enjoy these very low prices
- APLS DVD (Advanced Paediatric Life Support) A structured approach to all the common emergencies in infants and children. Was £33.50 NOW just £10 for CD and £14 for DVD!
- EMNH (Emergency Maternal & Newborn Health)
was £25 NOW Just £10 for CD and £14 for DVD !
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Free to anyone in the medical community who becomes one of our regular supporters!
Health and Human Rights
A proposed draft of a convention addressing the rights of pregnant women and girls and their newborn infants, in particular their right to health, has been published by MCAI in the medical journal Archives of Disease in Childhood. Click here to view the main paper and click here to view the 44 articles of the proposed convention.
Links to the toolkit for addressing the standards needed to achieve these rights can be accessed here. Tables A, B, C examine existing United Nations conventions and how they relate to this new proposed convention are available here. Gaps in existing UN conventions are revealed in the tables.
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It costs just £90 to provide a midwife with a complete kit to help deliver a baby.