Archive: May 2010

Using geographic maps provides a global view of where maternal health activity is occurring and helps the community to understand where gaps exist. So far, we have three interactive maps on our site containing information that we hope will be useful…

Written by Meagan Manas, MDiv, Women’s Ministries, National Council of Churches Fistula Stories is a faith-based 4-session curriculum for use in churches, campus ministries, and other community groups.  Through education,…

On May 24th, the Kaiser Family Foundation held a policy forum to examine  the evolving role for the U.S. in improving international maternal, newborn, and child health as well as global progress toward achieving MDG4 and 5. Speakers included…

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is committed to raising awareness for the issue of global maternal mortality. On Monday, May24th, the center launched a new interactive site, Dying for Life,  dedicated to international maternal mortality…

An article, More Condoms, Contraceptives, Midwives, and Educated Girls Could Prevent Most Maternal Deaths―New World Bank Reproductive Action Plan, on the World Bank News and Broadcast page outlines the rationale and the details of the new plan. The plan…

The Maternal Health Task Force is working with Population Action International (PAI) to apply the lessons learned from the reproductive health supplies movement to the maternal health field, in order to ensure that women throughout the world have…

 On June 7th, 2010, the University of Oxford will be launching ‘Global Voices for Maternal Health’, a crowd-sourcing project to give maternal health care providers around the world a direct global voice in identifying and solving the barriers to…

EarthSky: A Clear Voice for Science has posted two podcast interviews with Chris Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington—and principal author of  the April 2010 study published in the…

Reminder: This event will occur this Thursday, May 20th! Please join the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative, the Maternal Health Task Force, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for the fifth event of the series…

By: Emily George, RN, MPH, Hematology and Oncology Clinic, Boston Medical Center In honor of International Nurses Day, Emily George contributed a guest post to the MHTF. Emily is a registered nurseat Boston Medical Center.  She also holds an MPH in…