Archive: Jan 2013

By: Girija Sankar, Director of Haiti Programs, Senior Program Manager, Global Health Action Over 2000 abstracts were submitted to the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013. Eventually, around 800 delegates from all around the world presented papers…

By: Dr. Nosa Orobaton, Chief of Party, Nigeria Targeted States High Impact Project (TSHIP), JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. This post is cross-posted from The Pump. Did you know that nearly 20 percent of all births in Nigeria occur…

By: Priya Agrawal, Executive Director, Merck for Mothers I recently returned from the Global Maternal Health Conference and have now had a chance to reflect on a fantastic week of high-energy, detailed discussions of how to deliver quality care for…

By: Karen Beattie, Director of Fistula Care and Associate Vice President of EngenderHealth This post is cross-posted from the EngenderHealth website. Reflections from a lifelong global women’s health advocate on the closing ceremony of the Global…

By: Ana Luisa Silva, Transaid As we get to the end of the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013, a three-day opportunity to discuss issues and share experiences on improving quality of maternal health care, I would like to highlight one of the…

By: Sandeep Bathala, Senior Program Associate, Maternal Health Initiative, Wilson Center This post is cross-posted from the New Security Beat. On day three of the 2013 Global Maternal Health Conference here in Arusha, Tanzania, I was joined by the…

By: Ann Starrs, President and Co-Founder, Family Care International This post is cross-posted from the FCI Blog and the PMNCH website. Last week’s Global Maternal Health Conference (GMHC), held in Arusha, Tanzania, was both inspiring and sobering.…

By: Dr. Nosa Orobaton, Chief of Party, Nigeria Targeted States High Impact Project (TSHIP), JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. There is a sense of timelessness in resplendent Arusha, Tanzania, the venue of the second Global Maternal Health…

By: Mabinty A. Koroma, Communications Officer, MAMA, United Nations Foundation During the panel presentation, “Increasing uptake of maternal health services through mobile phone platforms,” on January 17th at the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013 in…

By: Jocalyn Clark, Senior Magazine Editor, PLOS Medicine This blog post is cross-posted from Speaking of Medicine. It wasn’t easy to choose sessions today on the last day of the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013, the variety and caliber of…