Archive: Mar 2012

The mHealth Alliance, in partnership with the Innovation Working Group, the UN Secretary-General’s Every Woman Every Child global strategy and the Norwegian Development Cooperation Agency (Norad) recently issued a Call for Letters of Interest (LOI) for…

Last week, on International Women’s Day, the President of the General Assembly and the United Nations Secretary-General jointly proposed the convening of a global conference on women by the UN in 2015, 20 years after the last women’s summit…

The following is the final installment of a series of project updates from Future Generations. MHTF is supporting their project, Using Pregnancy Histories to Help Mothers, based in Peru. More information on MHTF supported projects can be found here. …

Leadership Development for Enhanced Decision-Making   From our colleagues at the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research: The WHO Implementation Research Platform (IRP) has issued a Call for Proposals: Leadership Development for…

The Maternal Health Task Force and Management and Development for Health are delighted to announce the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013: Improving Quality of Care.   What: GMHC2013 will bring together approximately 700 scientists,…

This week on the MHTF blog: What is the relationship between intimate partner violence and maternal health? An opportunity to work with Jacaranda Health Who made the Women Deliver 50? MCHIP’s Koki Agarwal wrote about misoprostol We…

The Maternal Health Task Force serves as a global platform to bring together the efforts of organizations working to improve the health of women around the world. On International Women’s Day, it is an honor for us to showcase the innovative work…

By: Koki Agarwal, Director, MCHIP The following originally appeared on the MCHIP blog. It is posted here with permission. Bleeding to death after delivery is the leading cause of maternal death worldwide, with the greatest burden of disease in the…

Earlier today in honor of International Women’s Day, Women Deliver announced their list of 50 “ideas and solutions improving the lives of women and girls.” The Women Deliver 50 includes educational initiatives, advocacy campaigns,…

Jacaranda Health is a start up social enterprise that aims to set a new standard for maternity care in East Africa. We are combining business and clinical innovations to create a self-sustaining and scalable chain of clinics that provide reproductive…