Archive: May 2012

In an exclusive interview with Newsweek, Melinda Gates explained that she has decided to make family planning her signature issue and primary public health priority. Written by Michelle Goldberg, the Newsweek piece describes Gates’ passion for…

Last month, the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics published a paper, Awareness of danger signs and symptoms of pregnancy complication among women in Jordan, that explores the levels and determinants of awareness of danger signs of…

In honor of International Day of the Midwife (tomorrow, May 5th), our colleagues at AMREF shared a blog post today that calls on governments and development partners to invest in training midwives. The post describes the critical role that midwives…

  The Asia Regional Meeting on Interventions for Impact in Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care begins tomorrow, May 4, 2012 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The three-day meeting plans to focus on postpartum hemorrhage, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia as well…

A report released today, Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth, features the first-ever estimates of preterm birth rates by country. The report, coordinated by the March of Dimes, the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child…