Title page -- Copyright information -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- Maternal mortality: The realities, the reasons -- The world of work: An entry point for promoting safe maternity -- Improving maternity protection and health through the workplace -- The importance of maternity protection at work for maternal and newborn health and for gender equality -- Maternity protection at work -- Making maternity protection a reality -- Workplace education and services -- Addressing the needs of HIV-positive women during pregnancy -- Improving maternity protection and health through the workplace: Moving forward -- Implementing, extending and improving social health protection -- Achieving universal coverage in social health protection: The ILO strategy towards universal access to health care -- Maternity benefits schemes -- Implementing, extending and improving social health protection: Moving forward -- Promoting decent work for health workers -- Better working conditions for health workers -- HIV/AIDS takes a toll on health workers -- Migration -- Social dialogue: Building consensus for sustainable solutions -- Partnerships -- Conclusions: Mobilizing support, working together -- Documents and references -- Annex: Ratifications of international labour standards with particualr relevance to maternity and to health workers.