Archive: Dec 2011

Infographics How is Janani Suraksha Yojana performing in Uttar Pradesh? Misoprostol added to WHO list of essential medicines for PPH Janani Suraksha Yojana and the Bumpy Road to Maternal Health in Rural India Do homeless women in urban India…

More from Barbara Kwast on the partograph meeting: The meeting called by Fistula Care and the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) at Engender Health on revitalizing the partograph for the management of labor has been an important initiative. Management…

Over the past two years, the Woodrow Wilson Center has convened a number of public and private focusing on neglected issues in maternal health and strategies to move the maternal health agenda forward. A synthesis report is now available from the…

Over the past three years, the MHTF has done a wide variety of activities, including, but certainly not limited to, hosting meetings and conferences, identifying innovative approaches to improving maternal health, and funding research on emerging…

By: Ann Starrs, President and Co-Founder, Family Care International The following originally appeared on the Family Care International blog. It is reposted here with permission. Every five minutes, somewhere in the developing world, a woman who has…

This week on the MHTF blog: Last chance to take PATH’s supplies survey A petition for preeclampsia awareness month An update from the Alliance for Reproductive, Maternal and Newborn Health Maternal health will be featured on…

The Women & Health Initiative at the Harvard School of Public Health is seeking a Project Manager for the Hansen Project on Maternal and Child Health: The Women and Health Initiative (W&HI has embraced the reduction of maternal mortality as…

By: Celia Pett, Medical Associate, EngenderHealth; Pam Harper, Senior Writer/Editor, Engender Health The following is a summary of a meeting hosted by the Fistula Care Project in New York in November. Prolonged or obstructed labor is a major…

Tonight on ABC’s 20/20, Diane Sawyer and a team of correspondents will explore the state maternal health in Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and Bangladesh: “There is so much we can do together – so many simple ways for us all to link arms to help…

The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative, Environmental Change and Security Program, Africa Program and Council of Women World Leaders in coordination with the Maternal Health Task Force and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) invite…