Archive: 2012

By: Ana Langer, Director of the Maternal Health Task Force and Women and Health Initiative Over the course of the Safe Motherhood movement, the common wisdom has been that adolescent women have a highly elevated risk of maternal death —roughly two…

By: Safia Ahsan, Senior Health Systems Advisor, Ipas This post is part of a blog series on maternal health commodities. To view the entire series, click here. As the deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, there is…

We are delighted to announce that the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013 abstract submission site is now open. You can start the abstract submission process here. Abstracts are invited for oral or poster presentations under any of the five…

A special message from our friends organizing the maternal and newborn health (MNH) track at the upcoming Women Deliver Conference: The third Global Women Deliver Conference will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on May 28-30th 2013, with an…

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…