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27th March 2008: Ann Pettifor attended a high-level lunch at Lancaster House hosted by the Prime Minister's wife Sarah Brown, accompanied by Madame Carla Sarkozy. The charity lunch to raise awareness of the grave issue of maternal mortality was held by the White Ribbon Alliance and was attended by 120 women from politics, business, civil society, the media and the arts.
In her speech, Sarah Brown said of the deaths of over 500,000 mothers each year during pregnancy and childbirth "I do not believe we can begin to resolve any of the problems facing the developing world if we cannot first save the lives of these women."
