All statements about maternal death

152 statements about maternal death in 77 videos, by upload date.

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2015

2015-09-22 · Is Poverty Necessary? Looking back at the Millennium Development Goals — John: On the goal of cutting maternal mortality by 75%, a Gates Foundation chart shows little progress until 2005, then a dramatic fall once worldwide investment in maternal health rose. — 00:02:34
2015-11-12 · Cheez Doodles Guy, Ringo Silver, and Dad Jokes (Pizzamas Day 4) — John reports the World Health Organization announced that day that maternal death worldwide has fallen 44% over the last 25 years. — 00:00:26

2016

2016-12-09 · The Difference A Decade Makes: The 10th Annual Project for Awesome Is Here! — John says there is a coldness to numbers: it is hard to imagine the millions of parents spared losing a child, or the tens of thousands of kids who would not have mothers without the decade's gains in maternal health. — 00:01:38

2018

2018-05-15 · Seven Maps to Better Understand the World — John calls the benefits staggering: 522,000 mothers died in childbirth in 1991 and 303,000 in 2015; there is a long way to go, but that is real progress. — 00:02:41

2019

2019-02-22 · I Don't Want The Same Things Anymore — announcement: Hank: With big goals for maternal health in Liberia with Partners In Health, Hank says DFTBA will give the vast majority of its after-tax profit to PIH for that project, with more information soon. — 00:02:56
2019-07-19 · In Which Hank Consumes the Juice of Over 400 Gushers — announcement: Hank: Pricier tickets include meeting the brothers afterward, and all the tour's money will support the community's work improving maternal health in Sierra Leone. — 00:03:01
2019-08-02 · The Cutest Octopus — announcement: Hank: To raise money for the community's work decreasing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, DFTBA Pin Pals launches a Bizarre Beasts pin subscription club. — 00:03:05
2019-08-09 · Decluttering the Somewhat Embarrassing Nightstand of a 39 Year-Old Best-Selling Author — ask: Hank: For viewers into enamel pins who want to support the community's work decreasing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, the Pin Club is open just two more days at $12 a month with free worldwide shipping. — 00:01:48
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — The description says Sierra Leone has the world's highest maternal mortality rate and one of the highest child mortality rates, which John believes long-term investment can change. — video description
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John: Sierra Leone exports $100 million in diamonds annually while 6% of all women die in childbirth. — 00:03:53
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John: The hospital is still totally inadequate, with only 40 maternal beds for 550,000 people, but the progress is real. — 00:06:54
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John: Nothing about Sierra Leone's poverty is natural or inevitable, so John doesn't think it is permanent; evidence worldwide shows systems can strengthen so more mothers and children survive. — 00:07:52
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says Sierra Leone has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world: one in 17 women there will die in pregnancy or childbirth. — 00:00:29
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says they talk about the gift publicly to draw attention to health workers like Ruth, who need more robust systems to address the maternal and child mortality crises. — 00:01:44
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says 3,000 women in Sierra Leone will die in pregnancy or childbirth this year (2019). — 00:02:04
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says the women die of hemorrhaging any well-stocked hospital could address, and because there is no electricity for night deliveries or blood refrigeration, and no running water. — 00:02:10
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says this is an emergency, but because it has unfolded over many years it receives little attention. — 00:02:55
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says that by locating the project in the world's epicentre of maternal death, PIH hopes to show that radically reducing maternal mortality in poor communities is a global imperative, not a pipe dream. — 00:05:13
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says donations have lasting impact because when mothers don't die in childbirth, their children are more likely to go to school and live healthy lives and less likely to be malnourished. — 00:06:45
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says it is unacceptable that thousands of women will die in childbirth in Sierra Leone this year (2019) and thousands more of treatable illnesses, and we don't have to accept it. — 00:07:13
2019-11-08 · Trolling Through John's YouTube History...GUESS WHAT I FOUND!? — announcement: Hank says all the profits from Pizzamas products are going to improve maternal health in Sierra Leone. — 00:03:40

2020

2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — ask: The description asks people who can give $1,000 or more to support Partners In Health's fight to end the maternal and child mortality crises in Sierra Leone. — video description
2020-01-17 · It's Like Shark Tank, but for Charity — announcement: Hank: The catch: if the business succeeds within three years, the $50,000 comes back to promote maternal health in Sierra Leone, and 10% of after-tax income goes to that effort every year. — 00:03:03
2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John says most mothers who die in childbirth there die for want of an ambulance ride, a blood transfusion or an emergency C-section: these deaths are preventable and have been for decades. — 00:02:20
2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John says he understood in the abstract that Sierra Leone's maternal and child mortality crises were emergencies but had not been treating them like emergencies. — 00:02:50
2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John says the PIH-supported Wellbody Clinic saw zero maternal deaths in 2019, the third year in a row. — 00:03:48
2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John says one in 17 women in Sierra Leone will die in pregnancy or childbirth. — 00:03:48
2020-06-02 · --- — John says Black mothers in the US are far more likely to die in childbirth than white mothers, regardless of economic or educational background. — 00:00:58
2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — John explains that the brothers are helping Partners In Health and Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health in a multi-year project to strengthen the healthcare system, focused on maternal mortality. — 00:01:28
2020-08-11 · never get bored — John always loved the Life's Library Book Club, where Nerdfighteria reads together while raising money to fight maternal mortality, but really loves it right now. — 00:02:34
2020-10-05 · Thank God It's Over and PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!!!!!! — announcement: John: The Pizzamas items are sold only during this Pizzamas, and all profits and royalties go to charity to reduce child and maternal mortality, plus international COVID relief for a couple of items. — 00:00:29
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — announcement: John recalls that a year ago they announced a project supporting PIH and Sierra Leone's government in radically reducing maternal mortality, raising $25 million over five years to strengthen Kono's health system. — 00:00:00
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: One out of every 20 women in Sierra Leone can expect to die in pregnancy or childbirth. — 00:00:58
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: Almost all of those deaths are preventable with a strong health system: women die every day for want of an emergency C-section, a blood transfusion or blood pressure medication. — 00:01:27
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: As Sierra Leone's health system has strengthened in recent years, child and maternal mortality have dropped sharply, showing these deaths are not inevitable. — 00:01:27
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: At the large, successful Wellbody clinic PIH runs, there has not been a single maternal death in years. — 00:01:56
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: Not long ago the Sierra Leone figure was 1 in 17 women, so maternal death is declining and progress is real, just not fast enough. — 00:07:09
2020-11-27 · Finally Launching this Project!!! — announcement: Hank says shipping is free everywhere with an address and 100% of the profit goes to charity, currently to decrease maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:02:05
2020-12-08 · A Love Letter to My Brother, Basically — John says Hank helped him and Rosianna start Life's Library, a book club whose members read together and raise money to fight maternal mortality. — 00:01:56
2020-12-11 · The /W/orst Letter — Hank says all the sock club's profits will go to decreasing maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:02:58

2021

2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — announcement: John: Next week (week of 26 April 2021) Partners In Health and the Sierra Leonean government will officially break ground on the Maternal Center of Excellence and the expansion of Koidu Government Hospital, a huge step against maternal mortality. — 00:00:00
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — John: In the region the MCOE will serve, one out of every 20 women can expect to die in childbirth. — 00:00:29
2021-10-04 · PIZZAMAS IS HERE! — announcement: In a channel comment John adds that all Pizzamas royalties and profits go to charities supporting stronger health care systems in communities with high maternal and child mortality. — creator comment
2021-10-13 · The Web of Care — Hank: No individual must care about or do everything, from never getting COVID to cutting maternal mortality in Sierra Leone or cooking every meal: we do all of it in a web of care. — 00:02:36
2021-11-02 · enough — ask: In a comment John says the Awesome Socks Club is live and urges viewers to get great socks; 100% of proceeds support reducing maternal and child mortality. — creator comment
2021-11-05 · We Have Invented Something Marvelous — Hank says every dollar of the club's profit supports the community's work decreasing maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:01:56
2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — John reports big reductions in child and maternal mortality at Koidu Government Hospital over the last year, and far more people using the health system because they feel they can get care. — 00:02:26
2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — ask: John asks those able, at year's end, to join the thousands of nerdfighters making monthly or one-time donations to PIH's work to reduce maternal mortality, at pih.org/hankandjohn. — 00:02:55

2022

2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — John: In 2019 John's family made a long-term commitment to support Partners In Health's effort to radically reduce maternal mortality in Kono District, Sierra Leone. — 00:00:00
2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — John says that in Kono District at the time, 1 in 17 women died in pregnancy or childbirth. — 00:00:00
2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — John: Kono's health system is getting stronger: fewer mothers die for want of an emergency C-section and more kids survive, though maternal mortality is still hundreds of times higher than it should be. — 00:02:09
2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — John says the Kayima clinic's conditions dramatically increase the risks for mother and child, and it simply doesn't have to be this way. — 00:07:01
2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — John: The PIH-supported Wellbody Clinic, the best in Kono, has the stuff, space, staff, systems and support, and has had no maternal death in over a year. — 00:07:30
2022-02-08 · How Much Money Vlogbrothers Makes from YouTube (...and where it goes) — announcement: John says half the money went to the brothers' Partners In Health project to reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone; the rest was split between a Complexly educational fund and a fund for emerging educational creators. — 00:00:58
2022-02-08 · How Much Money Vlogbrothers Makes from YouTube (...and where it goes) — announcement: John notes the Project for Awesome is completely separate from the community's Partners In Health Sierra Leone project to reduce maternal mortality. — 00:02:26
2022-02-22 · On the Death of My Hero — John: Told nothing could be done about one in 17 Sierra Leonean women dying in pregnancy or childbirth, Farmer said otherwise; so the community came to support PIH's maternal and child care center at Koidu. — 00:02:26
2022-02-22 · On the Death of My Hero — John: Child and maternal mortality are the lowest in human history and health systems are strengthening even in very poor communities, but profound health inequities persist. — 00:02:55
2022-04-19 · How do you cross the Sad Gap? — John goes deep on maternal and child health in West Africa, Hank on climate change, and Rosianna Halse Rojas is getting a master's in refugee studies; all benefit from each other's priorities. — 00:02:55
2022-05-17 · Reasons Not to Care — John: Last week (week of 9 May 2022) the Washington Post published a story about 17-year-old Susan facing an unexpected high-risk pregnancy in Sierra Leone; her mother died in childbirth. — 00:00:00
2022-05-17 · Reasons Not to Care — John says one in 20 women in Sierra Leone will die from being pregnant. — 00:00:00
2022-05-17 · Reasons Not to Care — John: System strengthening can radically reduce maternal mortality: as Sierra Leone's health system grows stronger, partly through the community's investments, maternal mortality there fell over 10% in five years. — 00:02:26
2022-07-12 · Nauseous Puddle Water — announcement: John says all of the club's profits, not some or most, are donated to fight maternal and child mortality in impoverished communities. — 00:02:15
2022-09-13 · A Million Things at Once — ask: The description invites viewers to join the thousands of nerdfighters who donate monthly to the project to radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. — video description
2022-09-13 · A Million Things at Once — John says in Kono 1 in 20 women will die in childbirth and 1 in 10 children won't survive to age 5. — 00:02:34
2022-10-11 · Most People Have Never Been 20 — John says girls who survived childhood had a very high chance of dying in childbirth, in some communities over 10%. — 00:02:26
2022-10-11 · Most People Have Never Been 20 — ask: John says that is what the brothers are trying to do at pih.org/hankandjohn; the description invites one-time or monthly donations for maternal and child health in Sierra Leone. — 00:03:24
2022-10-11 · Most People Have Never Been 20 — John says Pizzamas raised over $130,000 toward better maternal and child health in impoverished communities. — 00:03:24
2022-11-04 · My Secret Obsession — announcement: Hank says the Awesome Socks Club sends a pair by a different independent artist each month, ships free, cancels anytime, and gives all profit to cutting maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:02:03
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — John says the community, working with Partners In Health, is now on pace to raise over $35 million in the first five years of the project to radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:00
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — John says that in 2019 one in 17 women in Sierra Leone could expect to die in pregnancy or childbirth. — 00:00:29
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — John says maternal mortality is declining too, though it is still hundreds of times too high. — 00:02:26
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — John says the project's biggest hope was that work in one region of one country could prove maternal and child mortality can be radically reduced everywhere and inspire other partners, which is starting to happen. — 00:04:22
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — John says that when the project began three years ago 1 in 17 Sierra Leonean women could expect to die in pregnancy or childbirth; today it is fewer than 1 in 20, still much too high but real progress. — 00:06:19
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — John says we can choose a world where maternal and child deaths are rare, and he really believes the community is helping bring it about. — 00:06:49
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — John says even viewers who can't donate help: their attention and advocacy draw attention to the maternal and child mortality crises, which brings in big funding partners. — 00:06:49
2022-11-22 · John's 2022 Gift Guide — ask: John: For coffee lovers John suggests an Awesome Coffee Club membership: carefully sourced, perfectly roasted beans, with 100% of profits supporting better maternal health in Sierra Leone. — 00:02:54

2023

2023-01-24 · Behind the Scenes of my TUMBLR MEME LORD ERA — John says the Awesome Coffee Club, with its cousin the Awesome Socks Club, is a really important part of ongoing funding to fight maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:29
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John: Kono was the epicenter of the world's maternal mortality crisis, with 1 in 17 women dying in childbirth or pregnancy. — 00:00:58
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John: In Kono both maternal and child mortality have since declined dramatically. — 00:00:58
2023-06-13 · touched by a king — ask: John's comment says the Awesome Socks Club has reopened and urges viewers to get Awesome Coffee Club coffee, whose profits all fight maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — creator comment
2023-06-20 · Reflections from a Terrible CEO — John says they are working, in small and insufficient ways, on the injustices of high US college costs and high global maternal mortality. — 00:04:08
2023-08-01 · Three Mornings — John says the Awesome Coffee Club donates 100% of profit to charity; Awesome Coffee, Awesome Socks and Sun Basin Soap have donated over $5 million in three years to fight maternal and infant mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:05:20
2023-08-22 · The Panera Phenomenon — ask: The description invites viewers to support the community's efforts to radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone at pih.org/hankandjohn. — video description
2023-08-29 · Breaking News: CEO Demoted — John says the clubs donate 100% of their profit to charity and have so far raised over $5 million for better child and maternal health in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:00
2023-09-22 · A Feeling I've Never Felt Before — Hank reminds viewers that all Pizzamas profit goes to decreasing maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:04:56
2023-11-03 · We Need to talk about Sarapocial Relationships — Hank: By capable Hank means the community can act for itself and the world, from TB access to Crash Course, SciShow and the clubs funding maternal health in Sierra Leone; membership should feel valuable. — 00:03:57
2023-12-01 · It's OK if you think less of me after this! — Hank says John gave him a motivation: promise to raise $25 million for a hospital in Sierra Leone without knowing how, which excites him in a way making money for himself did not. — 00:03:15
2023-12-01 · It's OK if you think less of me after this! — Hank says 1 in 17 women in Sierra Leone die in childbirth. — 00:03:15

2024

2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: In 2019 the community began supporting Partners In Health's efforts to radically reduce maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone's Kono District. — 00:00:25
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says that work is hard, as seen in the fight against maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, but results are huge: maternal mortality there has halved since 2019. — 00:03:50
2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says that on maternal mortality in Sierra Leone or the global TB crisis, he is astonished by what Nerdfighteria has done by orienting attention and resources in the same direction, and is grateful. — 00:04:23
2024-04-26 · One Year Out. — Hank says that today only the first pair of socks from the Awesome Socks Club costs $5 with free shipping, and that 100% of the profit from it and everything at good.store goes to decrease maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:03:52
2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — The description says John isn't sure how to square the benefit of reading a book with the benefit of giving birth in a safe, well-supported environment. (unsure) — video description
2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — John says Good Store has raised over $7.5 million to reduce maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:01:27
2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — John says his other work feels extremely urgent because it involves many people's livelihoods and, with tuberculosis and maternal and infant mortality, many people's lives. — 00:02:55
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John: Altogether they helped raise over $40 million for the project, and maternal mortality in Sierra Leone has already fallen by more than 50% since 2019, saving thousands of lives. — 00:01:27
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John says PIH, with a long history of expanding TB care, will prove that just as we need not live in a world where in some communities 1 in 17 women die in pregnancy or childbirth, we need not live in a world with TB. — 00:03:24
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John doesn't want to undermine the Sierra Leone maternal work, but PIH calls comprehensive TB care the next big thing in global health equity. — 00:05:21
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John has seen the community's power in reducing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone and driving down TB drug and test prices: never underestimate Nerdfighteria. — 00:05:45
2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John says all money Good Store makes goes either to stronger maternal and infant care in Sierra Leone or to better tuberculosis care in Lesotho. — 00:02:27
2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John says Good Store has donated over $8 million to support stronger maternal health and tuberculosis care. — 00:36:58
2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John says that in 2019 Sierra Leone had the world's highest rate of maternal mortality. — 00:00:35
2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John: This year (2024) alone the socks have raised over $759,000 for the maternal and child health care project, John says, an amazing number though down from last year (2023). — 00:01:27
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: Maternal mortality is measured per 100,000 births; in Germany it is about 4 per 100,000 births. — 00:01:45
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: The United States, with a weaker health care system and much more unequal access, has a maternal mortality rate over five times Germany's, at 22 deaths per 100,000 births. — 00:01:56
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: In 2017 Sierra Leone's maternal mortality rate was over 1,100 per 100,000 births, and with multiple pregnancies in a lifetime, one in 17 women there died in pregnancy or childbirth. — 00:02:06
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: Sierra Leone's maternal death rate is now 443 per 100,000 births. — 00:02:22
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: Sierra Leone's maternal death rate is still far too high, about 100 times too high, but down about 60% in seven years. — 00:02:26
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: In Kono, the district where Partners In Health began working in 2019, maternal mortality has fallen further: Koidu Government Hospital has seen a reduction close to 80% since 2019. — 00:02:40
2024-11-26 · Good News — John says the community is a tiny part of Sierra Leone's progress on maternal deaths; Vicky Reed and her colleagues would be the first to point out that it only works through deep partnership with the government, the main driver of health care quality in the country. — 00:03:26
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: When mothers survive childbirth, their children are less likely to be stunted by malnutrition and more likely to go to school, so John calls the fall in maternal deaths a generational change. — 00:03:48
2024-11-26 · Good News — John finds the progress against maternal deaths in Sierra Leone encouraging and says it can only be seen because the community has paid long-term attention to a long-term crisis. — 00:03:56

2025

2025-01-28 · This Is Not Normal — John says safer circumstances in which to give birth have decreased both maternal and infant mortality. — 00:02:55
2025-02-14 · Let's Do a Good — Hank lists the organizations' work: treating children for malnutrition, HIV treatment, supporting kids in war zones, reducing maternal and infant mortality, responding to disease outbreaks. — 00:00:44
2025-04-18 · I Still Don't Have Cancer (and I'm Still Scared) — Hank: Reading the bundle's postcard, Hank says Sun Basin Soap donates 100% of its profit to the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone, in a region with one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates. — 00:05:48
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says that in 2019 the latest statistics showed one in 17 women in Sierra Leone dying in pregnancy or childbirth. — 00:00:29
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says, thanks to the government and groups like PIH, Sierra Leone's lifetime maternal death risk fell from 1 in 17 to around 1 in 74, an over 60% reduction, though still too high. — 00:01:27
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says the MCOE will care for thousands or tens of thousands of people a year and radically reduce maternal and infant mortality in Kono and beyond. — 00:04:32
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says we solve the problems we pay attention to: long-term, open-ended attention can address long-term crises, from 1 in 17 to 1 in 74, and they are just getting started. — 00:05:30
2025-05-16 · No One Knows When They Don't Die — Hank says the community's work in Sierra Leone means fewer women are already dying in childbirth, a very quiet victory. — 00:02:26
2025-05-16 · No One Knows When They Don't Die — Hank says 3,000 women trapped in a fallen building would cause outcry, but 30,000 women each with a 10% chance of dying in childbirth, the same deaths, are not seen as the same catastrophe or rescue. — 00:02:26
2025-08-08 · I'm Glad I Ignored That Billionaire — announcement: John says all the profit goes to reducing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone and beyond, which he calls pretty special. — 00:04:12
2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank says the community realized early that the internet responds well to sudden disasters but not to ongoing ones, such as very high maternal mortality in parts of Sierra Leone. — 00:02:55
2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John's second under-covered story is the massive reduction in maternal mortality in what used to be the epicenter of that crisis. — 00:02:55
2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John: Globally maternal mortality has fallen only slowly since 2015, even worsening the year after COVID emerged as health systems were strained: about 23% in the last 10 years. — 00:02:55
2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John calls that progress kind of uninspiring, not least because progress in the decade before was faster. — 00:03:24
2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John says that in Sierra Leone over the same period maternal mortality has dropped by over 60%. — 00:03:24
2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John says the hospital now has all of that and much more, and as a result maternal mortality there has declined precipitously. — 00:03:53
2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — announcement: John says maternal mortality at the hospital will decline further with the opening next month (November 2025) of the Maternal Center of Excellence there. — 00:03:53
2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John tells viewers who bought a Pizzamas shirt, donated monthly to Partners In Health or encouraged others to care about maternal mortality that they played a role in this story. — 00:03:53
2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank says the MCOE's real impact, healthier mothers, stronger families and a more resilient health system, will grow over years. — 00:07:14
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John grants there is progress to point to, such as ongoing reductions in child and maternal mortality. — 00:03:24
2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — John calls the MCOE a statement of intent: the long-term, open-ended problems of maternal and child mortality in Kono are being met by long-term, open-ended support from the community. — 00:01:37
2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — John says Good Store, another way to support Partners In Health and the Coral Reef Alliance, raised about $10 million over the last five years to fight maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:03:04

2026

2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John recalls that in 2019 he and Sarah went to Sierra Leone, where at the time one in 17 women were dying in pregnancy and childbirth. — 00:03:06
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John says nobody deserves to die in childbirth, and cutting maternal mortality also makes children likelier to go to school and be healthy, raising the health of a whole community. — 00:06:26
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says that since Sierra Leone's government took on maternal health as a priority, the share of women dying in pregnancy or childbirth has fallen from one in 17 or one in 20 to closer to one in 80. — 04:10:30
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says maternal deaths in Sierra Leone are still much too high, but have fallen 75% in seven years, and will keep going down because of these investments. — 04:10:59
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says the work in Sierra Leone is a blueprint for the rest of the world: if better maternal care is possible in the epicenter of the maternal death crisis, it is possible anywhere. — 04:10:59
2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John calls the MCOE a real game changer for maternal and child health in the region. — 00:00:29
2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John says Partners In Health wanted to help Sierra Leone's government because everyone else called the country too risky: fragile systems, fear of war or economic collapse. — 00:02:55
2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John says the reluctance to invest in impoverished communities is the main reason maternal and child mortality were so high in Sierra Leone. — 00:02:55
2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John says more than one in 10 children in Sierra Leone died before age five and more than one in 20 women died in pregnancy or childbirth. — 00:03:24
2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John says just 20 years ago Sierra Leone was the deadliest place in the world to give birth: mothers died of hemorrhage, preeclampsia and above all lack of safe emergency C-sections. — 00:00:29
2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John says that is no longer the case: Sierra Leone's maternal mortality rate has dropped by 78%. — 00:00:58
2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John says mothers and children who could have died now survive every week in Kono, and the community has played a small but significant role. — 00:03:24
2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — John: In the NICU John saw babies who months ago would have had a very low chance of survival and will now lead long, productive lives. — 00:02:55
2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — John says 500 babies were born at the MCOE in its first six weeks of operation, including over 200 C-sections, many of them emergencies that might otherwise have meant maternal and child death. — 00:05:37
2026-05-05 · Noted Brother Hank Green — John says most of those, Hank and Katherine included, who raised over $30 million for the MCOE and other efforts against maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone have never been there. — 00:03:24
2026-08-28 · Why the Deadliest Virus Was the Easiest to Kill — ask: The description invites viewers to learn about the brothers' project to help Partners In Health radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone at pih.org/hankandjohn. — video description
2026-09-08 · The Life Expectancy Lies That Won't Die — John: By the late 19th century, John says, knowledge of microbes and antiseptics improved the outcomes of childbirth for both mother and infant. — 00:00:58
2026-09-08 · The Life Expectancy Lies That Won't Die — John says human health has improved tremendously thanks to clean water, sewers, vaccines and antibiotics, benefiting young children and pregnant women most, but all humans. — 00:04:52