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Archive: Aug 2009

Article of the Week

The Population Reference Bureau recently released figures showing that the global population will reach seven billion in 2011, a year earlier than expected. According to the experts, this population growth is likely to hinder the successful attainment of…

Article of the Week

On August 23rd, the New York Times Sunday Magazine will publish a special issue devoted to women in the developing world. The lead article is an excerpt from Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s book “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for…

Tim Thomas Joins the MHTF as Senior Advisor

Tim began his career at The Population Council in New York where he was the Special Assistant to the President, charged with cultivating and maintaining institutional relationships with government overseas development assistance agencies, as well as…

WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Meeting

In early July, I attended, on behalf of the Maternal Health Task Force, the initial two-day consultation meeting on the development of a safe birth “checklist” co-organised by the WHO Patient Safety team in Geneva, Switzerland. (For more information…

Article of the Week

HIV is the main cause of death among pregnant women in Johannesburg, South Africa according to a five-year study of maternal mortality at one of the city’s largest public hospitals. The study, published in the August 2009 issue of Obstetrics and…

Sara Gullo, Program Manager, joins the MHTF

We are pleased to welcome Sara Gullo as the MHTF Manager. Sara joins us from Atlanta, Georgia where she has spent the last four years with CARE working in their Humanitarian Unit. She served in various capacities there including Program Officer and…

Article of the week

A new study by the Guttmacher Institute and the International Institute for Population Sciences highlights the continuing problem of maternal mortality in India, the country with the highest annual number of maternal deaths in the world. Even though the…

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