Archive: Jun 2011

By: Faisal Siraj, Young Champion of Maternal Health This blog post was contributed by Faisal Siraj, one of the fifteen Young Champions of Maternal Health chosen by Ashoka and the Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth. This is his final blog post…

This week on the MHTF blog: Raji Mohanam interviewed a member of the “Be the Change: Save a Life Maternal Health Challenge” winning team UNFPA published The State of the World’s Midwifery Report What answers does China hold…

By: Tim Thomas, Senior Advisor, MHTF Our Young Champions of Maternal Health program helped the MHTF expand its network of likeminded initiatives around the world, most notably through the community of Ashoka Fellows with whom each Young Champion was…

Jed Friedman, from the World Bank, wrote an interesting post about the potential impacts of paying-for-performance for health workers. He notes, that in some cases, introducing extrinsic motivation may decrease intrinsic motivation and end up having the…

The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) had the opportunity to speak with Sean Monagle, member of the student team at Johns Hopkins University which recently won an international competition sponsored by ABC News and the Duke Global Health Institute. As…

Last week, we posted about a discussion at the British Medical Journal on traditional birth attendants and their role in promoting maternal health. Our poll results suggest that our readers think that TBAs do have a role to play in promoting maternal…

Earlier today, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released “The State of the World’s Midwifery 2011: Delivering Health, Saving Lives.” In addition to the formal report, UNFPA has included interactive tools, data, country…

[polldaddy poll=5158965] The June edition of the WHO Bulletin features an articles that explores inequality in hospital births in China and finds significant increases in access to facilities. With the exception of the poorest region of the country,…

The following is part of a series of project updates from the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B). The MHTF is supporting their project, Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Translation in Bangladesh. More information on…

[polldaddy poll=5146310] The British Medical Journal published two articles this week in their Head to Head feature focusing on the use of traditional birth attendants (TBAs). The use of TBAs has led to contentious debates in recent years.   …