Archive: Feb 2013

By: Jordan Teague, Research Assistant, WASH Advocates When I arrived in the village of Bogu in the Northern Region of Ghana, the first thing I saw was a group of women and girls with metal buckets on their head, walking toward us. They were returning…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Yesterday, Women Deliver opened voting for the 25 top Social Enterprises for Women and Girls.  These 25 organizations are doing some incredible work, and using innovative approaches to address some major challenges…

By: Koronel Mashalla Kema, Program Manager and Technical WASH leader, AMREF Tanzania. Based in Dar es Salaam, he is also a Paul Harris Fellow with Rotary International. As an engineer with a public health focus working with the African Medical &…

By: Rebecca Fishman, Director of Operations and Special Projects, WASH Advocates This guest post is the first in the series WASH & Women’s Health, which WASH Advocates is coordinating for the MHTF blog. Access to clean water is not only one…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Today, The Lancet published “A Manifesto for Maternal Health post-2015,” which was co-authored by MHTF Director Ana Langer, along with Lancet Editor Richard Horton, and Guerino Chalamilla, the Executive Director of…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Today, Evidence for Action launched MamaYe, a campaign that uses digital and mobile phone technology alongside community involvement in Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Tanzania. Along with…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant A new article, “Access to essential technologies: a survey of health workers in Africa and Asia,” which was written by Jonathan M Spector, Jonathan Reisman, Stuart Lipsitz, Priya Desai and Atul A…

The Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia and the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have issued a call for  abstracts for the Third International…

Please take a moment to fill out this survey on the Maternal Health Task Force website.  We’re hoping that the survey will generate some useful insights into who you–our visitors–are, why you visit our website, and how well we are…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Yesterday, in a blog post first published on The Huffington Post, Every Mother Counts Founder Christy Turlington Burns launched a petition asking female members of the U.S. Congress to use their positions to advance…