Abbreviations

ANC Antenatal care

ANM Auxiliary Nurse-Midwife

APH Antepartum hemorrhage

ASHA Accredited Social Health Activist

AWW Anganwadi worker

BPL Below poverty line

CEDAW Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

CESCR UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

CHC Community health center

CMO Chief medical officer

CRC Convention on the Rights of the Child

CSSM Child Survival and Safe Motherhood forms

DLHS District Level Household and Facility Survey

FIGO International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics

FOGSI Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India

FRU First referral unit

HMIS Health Management Information System

HSC Health sub-center

ICCPR International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

ICESCR International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

ICM International Confederation of Midwives

IFA Iron and folic acid

IMA Indian Medical Association

JSYJanani Suraksha Yojana, literally Motherhood Protection Scheme

MAPEDIR Maternal and perinatal death inquiry and response

MCH Maternal and child health

MDGs Millennium Development Goals

MMR Maternal mortality ratio

MMWG Maternal Mortality Working Group

MOIC Medical officer-in charge

NFHS National Family and Health Survey

NRHM National Rural Health Mission

PHC Primary health center

PNC Postnatal care

PPH Post-partum hemorrhage

RCH Reproductive and child health (program)

RKSRogi Kalyan Samitis, or Patient Welfare Committees

SHC Sub-health center

SR Special Rapporteur

SRS Sample Registration System

UN United Nations

UNFPA United Nations Population Fund

UNICEFUnited Nations Children's Fund

UP Uttar Pradesh state

USAID United States Agency for International Development

WHO World Health Organization