Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.

My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.