title: Inspired to take action.
abstract: Shocked by a television documentary on maternal mortality in Chad, nurse Angela Gorman helped set up a charity in her back bedroom to send life-saving medications to the hospital featured in the programme. Today she is chief executive of Life for African Mothers, which works to save the lives of women in Africa.
authors.forename: Erin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dean
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa / Q000453:epidemiology; D002608:Charities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008428:Maternal Mortality; D011247:Pregnancy; D006113:United Kingdom; D016387:Women's Health