Archive: 2011

May 19, 2011 Dear Colleagues: It has been several months since you lent your support to add misoprostol for prevention and treatment of post-partum hemorrhage (PPH) to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Model List of Essential Medicines. The…

This week on the MHTF blog: Dr. Yetnayet Asfaw of EngederHealth was interviewed on PBS Kate Kerber and Ribka Amsalu of Save the Children wrote about maternal and newborn survival in crises We discussed income shocks and birth outcomes …

Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is the leading cause of maternal mortality, accounting for about 25% of all maternal deaths. Misprostol is an easy to use drug that is shown to be successful in preventing PPH. Earlier this month, the World Health Organization…

A recent study (PDF) by Alfredo Burlando of the University of Oregon on income shocks, maternal nutrition and infant health was highlighted on the World Bank’s Development Impact blog, an excellent resource for people interested in impact…

By: Kate Kerber and Ribka Amsalu, Save the Children The following post originally appeared on the Healthy Newborn Network blog. It is reposted here with permission Imagine you are eight months pregnant with your third child with two other young…

The Hamlin Fistula Hospital, which we’ve written about on the blog before, was featured recently on PBS’ Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. The piece includes an interview with EngenderHealth’s Dr. Yetnayet Asfaw who discusses some of the…

This week on the MHTF blog: Women Deliver completed their mapping of maternal health organizations Ann Blanc and Tim Thomas wrote about the Young Champions on GlobalMama We posted about ABC News’ Moms Matter competition Giving…

In the maternal health community, we often refer to Millennium Development Goal 5, which sets the goal of reducing maternal mortality by two-thirds by 2015. It gets used as an advocacy tool, a way to hold donors and governments accountable and as a way…

By: Dr. Ann Blanc, Director, MHTF; Tim Thomas, Senior Advisor, MHTF Over the nine months of their internships, the Young Champions of Maternal Health have forged a steadfast bond. Facebook has been their friend, and they’re not letting go of the…

Although the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in Nepal is still high (380 maternal deaths per 100,000 lives birth), the country has seen a 56% drop in MMR since 1990, according to last year’s United Nations Inter-Agency estimates. However, only 19%…