Archive: 2012

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…

Our colleagues at Maternova recently highlighted on their innovation index a new tool (that is currently in development) that aims to increase the effectiveness of the partograph. The PartoPen is being developed by University of…

Earlier this week, the Huffington Post shared a story on their Global Motherhood Blog, Maternal Health in the Mobile Age, that tells the story of one community health worker, Pushpa, in rural India who was recently introduced to a new mobile-based…

Midwifery Journal recently published an article, Midwifery scope of practice among staff nurses: A grounded theory study in Gujarat, India, that aims to explore the role of midwives (among staff nurses) in providing maternal health services in…

The International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics published a new article today, Patterns in training, knowledge, and performance of skilled birth attendants providing emergency obstetric and newborn care in Afghanistan, that explores the role of…

IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis published a story today, PHILIPPINES: Conditional cash for better maternal health, about the role of conditional cash transfers (CCT) to incentivize women in the Philippines to access maternal health services. The…

A recent collaboration between The Lancet and Imperial College London has led to a new Commission on Technologies for Global Health (launched today) that explores how medical technology (that tends to be developed in wealthy…