Archive: Jan 2011

We have a new post up today on our Medscape blog, Global Mama on the relationship between family planning, maternal health and climate change. Be sure to check it out.

The Gates Foundation released the 2011 Annual Letter from Bill Gates today, which focuses on the final push to eradicate polio. Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan are the four countries where polio remains a problem, and each of the four also has a…

This week on the MHTF blog: We heard updates from the Young Champions of Maternal Health Hannah Knight wrote about the progress of the Global Voices for Maternal Health project Ann Starrs told us about commitments made on maternal and child…

Earlier this week, RH Reality Check launched a series of blog posts focusing on obstetric fistula. The effort is a collaboration between a number of organizations, including EngenderHealth, UNFPA, The Campaign to End Fistula, The Fistula Foundation,…

In order to improve maternal health, medical professionals and NGO workers need to engage with government officials, including elected representatives. Many approaches for parliamentarians and other elected officials are outlined in “Maternal…

By: Hannah Knight, Community Moderator for Global Voices for Maternal Health at the University of Oxford An online project, run by the Oxford Maternal & Perinatal Health Institute and Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of…

Christopher Lindahl, of the MHTF, recently wrote a post for the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases on the links between maternal health and neglected tropical diseases as global health issues. Be sure to check it out.

Working with Women Deliver, we’ve created a map documenting organizations working in maternal health throughout the world. As the map has become more populated, we realized that additional features were needed to enhance the users’…

By: Ann Starrs, President and Co-Founder, Family Care International When UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon formally launched the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health last September during the 2010 UN General Assembly meeting, a range of…

OpenIDEO, a collaborative design challenge, hosted by the design firm IDEO, Oxfam, and Nokia, recently developed a challenge focusing on maternal health and mhealth. For the next four weeks, they are soliciting inspiration from people working in global…