Abstract
There are moments at medical conferences, very rare moments, where an individual is able, though the power of their presence, their words, and their delivery, to take an audience to a place it didn't know existed. Mahmoud Fathalla raised his audience to its feet and reduced many to tears last week as he closed the Global Maternal Health Conference, held in Arusha, Tanzania. After three days of discussion about the health of women during pregnancy and childbirth, Fathalla, for over 40 years a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Assiut University, Egypt, and a former director of WHO's special programme of research on human reproduction, closed the meeting with a message to the Lady of Laetoli.
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