Archive: Nov 2011

At the technical meeting on partograph use earlier this month a wide variety of opinions were heard about the appropriateness of the tool, how to increase its coverage, and many other topics. Over the coming days, we’ll be posting some reflections…

Earlier this year, we ran a series of posts exploring the relationship between water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and maternal health. A new paper (gated) published in Current Opinions on Environmental Sustainability by Susan Watt and Jean Chamberlain…

Please take a moment to assist our colleagues at PATH who are conducting a survey on maternal health supplies in collaboration with Population Action International and the Maternal Health Supplies Working Group. Your input is critical: PATH is…

Access to health care, particularly maternal care, is not limited to the developing world, nor always the result of an inability to pay. Racism, poverty, and other forms of discrimination deny mothers access to care in the United States and Europe. In…

Last week’s meeting on the partograph use was organized by the Fistula Care Project since its use may reduce obstructed labor, one of the main causes of obstetric fistula. Not only do women who develop fistula suffer terrible physical outcomes, but…

By: Tim Thomas, Acting Director, MHTF The Advancing Maternal Health Dialogue series has been seminal to meeting the MHTF mandate of convening new allied partners around emerging and neglected issues in maternal health. The series had a powerful…

This week on the MHTF blog: The MHTF is looking for a Deputy Director of Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation Engaging Faith-Based Organizations at the Wilson Center Revitalizing the Partograph recaps: Day 1 and Day 2 An upcoming…

The partograph is often referred to as a simple tool (see here, here, here). The word simple often appears in a definition of partograph. However, if one thing became clear over the course of a two day meeting to discuss the partograph, it is that the…

The second day of the partograph meeting began with a discussion of how to overcome some of the challenges to partograph use identified on Day 1. The most significant challenges, as identified by polling attendees, included health systems failures and a…

On November 24, 2011 at 2pm EST, IDRC is hosting a conversation with Dr Richard Gakuba, director of eHealth in Rwanda’s Ministry of Health. Improving maternal and child health is a key aim of the Millennium Development Goals. Health systems in…