Archive: Aug 2011

By: Emily Puckart, Program Associate, MHTF Jacaranda Health is combining business and clinical innovations to create mobile health clinics with a high standard maternity care for women located in the peri-urban areas of Nairobi and I recently visited…

By: Nick Pearson, Founder and Managing Director, Jacaranda Health The following was originally posted on Jacaranda’s blog. It is reposted here with permission Five weeks ago, Jacaranda Health opened our doors to the low-income mothers of…

“Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and, therefore, a basic human right. Contaminated water jeopardizes both the physical and social health of all people. It is an affront to human dignity.” –Kofi Annan WASH (water,…

Most of the news out of Iraq revolves around the war and violence. Even for those of us that work in the maternal health field, maternal health in Iraq isn’t something we hear a lot about. Given the difficultly of getting maternal health data in…

Women Deliver has been hosting a discussion of what global frameworks might exists in post-Millennium Development Goal world after 2015 in a series “Beyond 2015.” Last week, Andy Sumner of the Institute of Development Studies and the Center…

This week on the MHTF blog: Maternal mortality ratio in rural Mali Young Champion Zubaida Bai is among the finalists for the Index: Award 2011 Submit an abstract for the Global Health & Innovation Conference Read final reports and other…

Date: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 Time: 9:30 to 11:00 AM Location: PATH 10th Floor, Room 1061 455 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20001, USA (Please note new location) Please join the Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project for a panel…

The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world’s leading global health conference and social entrepreneurship conference, with 2,200 professionals and students from all 50 states and from more than 55 countries. This must-attend,…

Young Champion of Maternal Health Zubaida Bai has developed a birth kit that is a finalist for the INDEX: Award 2011. Zubaida’s was based in Boston during the YC program and had the opportunity to work with HealthLeads. More information on her internship…

Even though 350,000 women die due to pregnancy related causes each year, maternal deaths are still a relatively rare event. While this doesn’t mean we should not concern ourselves with maternal mortality, it does mean that measuring it and its…