Archive: Jan 2013

By: Lauren Herzer, Wilson Center This blog post is cross-posted from the New Security Beat. Does access to quality water and sanitation have an effect on maternal health outcomes? That was a surprising topic of discussion on day one of the…

By: Jocalyn Clark, Senior Magazine Editor, PLOS Medicine This blog post is cross-posted from Speaking of Medicine. I had the pleasure today of officially launching the Year 1 Open Access Collection on Maternal Health that PLOS has developed with…

By: Hannah Ford, Communications Coordinator, The Road Less Travelled This blog post is cross-posted from The Road Less Travelled. In the Afar region of Ethiopia, 93 percent of mothers deliver their babies at home with the assistance of…

By: Dr. Mohammad Tariq, Country Director, USAID | DELIVER PROJECT/Islamabad, JSI This blog post is cross-posted from JSI’s The Pump. I’ve arrived at the Global Maternal Health Conference in Tanzania to present the results of two years of…

By: Jocalyn Clark, Senior Magazine Editor, PLOS Medicine This blog post is cross-posted from Speaking of Medicine. Today in Arusha, more than 700 delegates from around the world gathered to begin three days of presentation, discussion, and calls…

Today marks the first day of the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013 in Arusha, Tanzania! Over the next three days, stay tuned to the MHTF Blog for conference updates and recaps. We will be sharing posts from the Maternal Health Task Force team as…

The Global Maternal Health Conference is right around the corner! In an effort to engage a broad audience, the opening and closing ceremonies as well as the three plenaries will be live-streamed and archived. In addition, all conference sessions…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative Yesterday, WBUR, Boston’s NPR news station, aired a story, Mexico Aims To Save Babies And Moms With Modern Midwifery, about a new public midwifery…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth recently published an article, Quality of antenatal care in Zambia: A national assessment, that classified and assessed the…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative PLOS ONE recently published an article, Piecing Together the Maternal Death Puzzle through Narratives: The Three Delays Model Revisited, that explores…