Archive: Aug 2012

By: Beth Yeager, Principal Technical Advisor, Management Sciences for Health & Chair, Maternal Health Supplies Caucus, Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition This post is part of a blog series on maternal health commodities. To view the entire…

Our colleagues at JSI recently published a document that describes recent changes and improvements in maternal and infant health care across several countries in the former soviet union. The document, Transforming Health Care for Mothers and Babies in…

By: Kelley Boldt, PATH This post is part of a blog series on maternal health commodities. To view the entire series, click here. Kelley Boldt is a young professional supporting PATH’s advocacy efforts to expand access for maternal health medicines in…

Patience Hlengiwe Kweyama, site coordinator with mothers2mothers, recently wrote a post, HIV Positive Mothers Helping HIV Positive Mothers, for the Huffington Post’s Global Motherhood blog that describes the work of mothers2mothers as well as her role…

By: Jill Sheffield, Founder and President, Women Deliver This post is part of a blog series on maternal health commodities. To view the entire series, click here. Recently, a new study by the Guttmacher Institute and the United Nations Population Fund…

Earlier this week, Human Resources for Health published a paper, So many, yet few: Human resources for health in India, that explores the information gap around human resources for health in many developing countries and aims to provide a more…

This post is part of a blog series on maternal health commodities. To view the entire series, click here. Written by: the Fistula Care team at EngenderHealth. The UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities is working to improve access to…

Catherine Carr, Senior Maternal Health Advisor for Jhpiego and MCHIP, recently wrote a post, Respectful Care is Quality Care, for the Huffington Post’s Global Motherhood blog that describes why the concept of “safe…

Ana Langer, Director of the Maternal Health Task Force at the Women and Health Initiative at Harvard School of Public Health, is a co-author on an important new publication, Meeting the emerging challenge of breast and cervical cancer in low- and…

A special invitation from our colleagues at PATH: Ripple Effect: A photo exhibit documenting how medicines help women deliver and improve life Date: Thursday, September 27, 2012 Time: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Place: Volvo Hall, Scandinavia…