Archive: 2011

USAID has extended the deadline for a major grant on technology for health. From the announcement: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) seeks to award up to two five-year cooperative agreements (combined total of $50…

By: Claire Bangser, Senior Program Manager, Ashoka The following post originally appeared Ashoka’s blog. It is reposted here with permission. Nine months ago, fifteen complete strangers in twelve different countries independently packed their…

By: Kate Mitchell, Clinton Fellow The following was originally published on Kate’s blog, Maternal Mortality Daily, and is reposted here with permission. This post is the first in a series on maternal health in the Seraikela block of Jharkhand,…

Save the Children’s Mothers Index was published earlier this month and ranks Afghanistan as the worst place for mothers. The following photo essay was originally published on the Health Newborn Network blog. It is reposted here with permission. …

This week on the MHTF blog: We posted reactions from FCI and Gynuity, VSI and RHTP to the approval of misoprostol to prevent PPH Global Health Visions wrote a report on maternal health donors We listened to Esther Duflo at the Population…

At the MHTF, we have a mandate to build consensus within the maternal health community on a variety of issues based on evidence. A recent trial in Africa, publish in the New England Journal of Medicine has found that a routine treatment for children…

Yesterday, we had the opportunity to go to the Population Council’s New York office for a Poverty, Gender and Youth Seminar with Esther Duflo from MIT. As a coauthor (along with Abhijit V. Banerjee) of the recently published Poor Economics: A Radical…

DataDyne, the United Nations Foundation, the Vodafone Foundation, and the mHealth Alliance invite you to join us in person or via webinar for mHealth Tools 101: Turning Ideas Into Action with special guests Peter Benjamin General Manager,…

Insufficient funding for maternal health has been identified as a major obstacle in achieving MDG5, so the MHTF commissioned Global Heath Visions to conduct a landscaping of all the existing and potential maternal health donors based in the US. Some…

By: Shafia Rashid, Senior Program Officer, Global Advocacy, Family Care International The following was originally published on the FCI blog. It is reposted here with permission Last week, the WHO Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential…