Archive: Oct 2013

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant As part of its ongoing 100 Women series, the BBC’s Newshour featured an interview and segment guest-edited by Chelsea Clinton, vice-chair of the Clinton Family Foundation. The segment focused on the state of maternal…

By: Allison Ettenger, Program Manager, Jacaranda Health Cross-posted from the Jacaranda Health blog Joyce*, a healthy mother, glows as she admires her new baby. Her husband  collects her belongings as she prepares to leave Jacaranda Maternity,…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Today, October 11 marks the second annual International Day of the Girl. This year, the theme for the day is the “Innovating for Girls’ Education,” and the culmination of 11 days of action to support girls. Organizations…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Ever since the first evidence emerged from clinical trials to suggest that the non-pneumatic anti-shock garment (NASG) can be effective in addressing obstetric hemorrhage, the garment has emerged as a potentially vital…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Advocacy is a critical element of efforts to advance maternal health around the world. At local, national and global levels, it takes more than high quality evidence to establish policies that support advances in health,…

By: Laurie Mazur, Consultant on Population and the Environment for the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program Cross-posted from New Security Beat, the blog of the Wilson Center.  As world leaders gathered at the UN for…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Next week, on October 10, the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, will host the launch of a new UN Foundation report, “Women’s Economic Empowerment and Reproductive Health.” The event will be held from 12:00-2:00 pm and…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant In the past week, three potentially high-impact innovations have made the news. Each holds promise for easing some of the key barriers that women face in reaching high quality maternal health care in a timely way, and…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant A new study published in PLOS Medicine,“Effect on Postpartum Hemorrhage of Prophylactic Oxytocin (10 IU) by Injection by Community Health Officers in Ghana: A Community-Based, Cluster-Randomized Trial” documents the…

The MHTF is excited to announce the launch of the first issue of our newsletter, the MHTF Quarterly.  Each issue of the Quarterly will highlight critical issue in maternal health, compiling resources, including new and important research, multimedia…