Archive: 2009

The Maternal Health Task Force has been working with the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to create a series of events on Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health. Over the next year,…

Hanna Ingber Win, the Huffington Post’s World Editor, wrote a five- part series about her recent trip to Ethiopia to visit UNFPA’s maternal health programs. These articles describe a woman’s journey to find a doctor in rural Ethiopia, girls fleeing…

We are so excited to have Sarah Blake and Kate Mitchell on board as our new Knowledge Management Interns. We have already felt their contributions speeding up the pace of our work! Sarah holds a M.Sc. in Gender, Development and Globalisation from the…

The Bulletin of the WHO recently published electronically a paper showing that the maternal mortality ratio in Mongolia declined substantially between 1992 and 2007, after the introduction of a comprehensive maternal health strategy. The MMR decreased…

We have two interesting pieces for you to read this week. The first is a multimedia BBC news story on maternal mortality around the world and one particular solution to the problem in rural Malawi. For the full article click here. Let us know if this…

The Global Health Initiative is holding a Policy Forum in Washington D.C. this Thursday. The Forum is entitled Strategies for Global Health: Urgent Challenges, Comprehensive Solutions. To view the announcement click here.

On September 8th, the MHTF hosted an event at the FIGO Congress in Cape Town, South Africa. The purpose of the event was to update MHTF members and others in the maternal health community about our activities and to provide a venue for interaction and…

Dr. Flavia Bustreo gave a presentation at the FIGO meeting in Cape Town, South Africa last week on the role of the Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health in Achieving MDGs 4 and 5. We encourage you to view the presentation to see the important…

On Thursday September 24, 2009, I attended a gathering of various leaders in the field of maternal health who were in New York to make commitments at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting. As a co-representative of the American India Foundation…

Yesterday, Human Rights Watch released a report “No Tally of the Anguish: Accountability in Maternal Health Care in India” which documents the poor health care system available for pregnant women in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India, in…