Archive: 2011

By: Sarah Blake, This post is part of a series of posts on cash transfers and maternal health. To read other posts in the series, click here. If CCTs are a part of your work or research, we’d love to hear from you. Contact us at…

The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative, Africa Program, and Environmental Change and Security Program, in coordination with the Maternal Health Task Force, UNFPA, and the African Population Health & Research Center invite you to a…

This week on the MHTF blog: Joslyn Meier and Peter Mukasa of EngenderHealth wrote about partograph use in Uganda We posted about demand and supply side interventions for maternal health A review of evidence on referral system interventions …

Back in May, we posted on GlobalMama about how to start thinking about advocacy, development and health policy after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reach their 2015 deadline: [After 2015] a useful framework for addressing some development…

DFID, partnering with IMMPACT and others, recently published, a systematic review that delves into the evidence on transport and referral systems for emergency obstetric care (EmOC). The review covers 14 interventions that address organizational…

This post is part of a series of posts on cash transfers and maternal health. To read other posts in the series, click here. If CCTs are a part of your work or research, we’d love to hear from you. Contact us at clindahl@engenderhealth.org if you are…

By: Joslyn Meier, Program Associate, EngenderHealth; Peter Mukasa, Senior Medical Associate, EngenderHealth Written by: Joslyn Meier, Program Associate and Peter Mukasa, Senior Medical Associate, EngenderHealth At 16, Jenny Nalukwago became pregnant…

This week on the MHTF blog: We received the final posts from the Young Champions of Maternal Health We introduced a series of posts on cash transfers KG Santhya from the Pop Council wrote about her research on JSY in India The deadline for…

The following is part of a series of project updates from the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia (CIESAS). MHTF is supporting their project, Evaluation of ALSO Program. More information on MHTF supported projects can be found…

By: France Donnay, Interim Deputy Director, Maternal, Neonatal & Child Health, Senior Program Officer, Maternal Health, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation I am sitting in a huge auditorium filled with a very special crowd: midwives from all over…