The First Lady of the Republic of Ghana launched the Campaign for Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA) for District and Municipal level policy makers in the Eastern Region of Ghana. CARMMA is an initiative of the African Union Commission to curb the continent's high pregnancy-related deaths. Following up on the national launch of which Mrs. Mills was the guest of honour in the same region in 2009, the First Lady aimed at updating herself with the maternal mortality situation in the region since it had the highest rate at the time of the national launch. She also used the opportunity to call on the district policy makers to support the campaign by allocating resources to maternal mortality reduction programmes in their respective districts. read more