Archive: Jun 2012

This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. Take Away Messages from Day Two, June 27th, 2012, at Malaria in Pregnancy: A Solvable Problem—Bringing the Maternal Health and Malaria Communities…

This week’s issue of The Lancet reports on accusations of forced sterilizations of women in Uzbekistan. One non-governmental organization gathered evidence of 80,000 sterilizations over seven months in 2010 but could not determine how many were…

Last year, USAID, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and DFID provided 24 grants to innovative projects to improve maternal and child health through Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand…

A new book out this month, co-edited by our colleague Julia Hussein from the University of Aberdeen, provides global context and an analysis of interventions for improving maternal and perinatal health. Maternal and Perinatal Health in Developing…

This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. Take Away Messages from Day One, June 26th, 2012, at Malaria in Pregnancy: A Solvable Problem—Bringing the Maternal Health and Malaria Communities…

Our colleagues at Johns Hopkins University and a number of other partners are organizing an upcoming summit at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York City on October 2nd and 3rd. The event will explore ways to improve health and health workforces…

This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. The Maternal Health Task Force is delighted to be hosting a technical meeting on malaria in pregnancy that will bring together the maternal health and…

By: Koki Agarwal, Co-Chair, Role Back Malaria “Malaria in Pregnancy Working Group, Director, MCHIP This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. Malaria is a maternal and child health issue.…

By: Mohammad Ahsan, CEDPA India The following is final part of a series of project updates from the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA). The MHTF is supporting their project, Working on Integration Issues of HIV/AIDS and Maternal…

Earlier this week, the Guttmacher Institute and UNFPA published a new study that estimates the number of women with an unmet need for contraception to be 222 million in 2012, a slight decrease from 2008. 645 million women in the developing world are…