Archive: 2011

World of Contrasts

This blog post was contributed by María Laura Casalegno, one of the fifteen Young Champions of Maternal Health chosen by Ashoka and the Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth. She will be blogging about her experience every month, and you can learn…

Weekend Reading

This week on the MHTF blog: Lisa Russell wrote about artists in Tanzania Pape Gaye and Family Planning in West Africa Take a survey about our interactive maps Some reading for the weekend A discussion of task-shifting in the New York…

An Imperative to Act: Family Planning in West Africa

By: Pape Gaye, President and CEO, IntraHealth International The following was originally posted on the IntraHealth International blog. Reposted here with permission. Cliquez ici pour lire le blog en français. Earlier this month, I was in Ouagadougou,…

Brooklyn to Tanzania: "Mama Creator"

By: Lisa Russell, Documentary Filmmaker and Co-Founder, MDGFive.com As a documentary filmmaker who creates films with UN/NGO agencies, I get the luxury of walking in two distinct worlds. The socially conscious creative world and the…

Commission on the Status of Women Underway in New York

The 55th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women is underway at UN headquarters in New York and will run through March 4th. The proceedings began yesterday with the focus on “Access and participation of women and girls in education,…

Take a Quick Survey about Our Interactive Maps

At the MHTF, we’re always working to improve the experience of users on our site to ensure that you are able to find what you want, when you want it. To that end, we’ve created a survey about our Interactive Maps to help us learn how…

Weekend Reading

This week on the MHTF blog: Ann Starrs wrote an update about the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health Samantha Lattof discussed the development of an intra-partum stillbirth indicator An…

Making Accountability Count, Part 2

By: Ann Starrs, President and Co-Founder, Family Care International Last month I blogged here about the launch of the high-level Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health, co-chaired by the President of Tanzania and…

Maternal Mortality Ratio Down 40% in Bangladesh

In nine years, between 2001 and 2010, the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in Bangladesh declined by 40% according to a survey supported by USAID, MEASURE Evaluation and ICDDR,B. The survey found that Bangladesh’s MMR dropped from 322 deaths per…