Archive: Dec 2013

UNFPA has announced that the second edition the State of the World’s Midwifery (SoWMy) report will be launched in June 2014 at the 30th Triennial Congress of the International Confederation of Midwives: Midwives – Improving Women’s Health…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant On January 9, 2014, the Center for Strategic and International Studies will host a panel discussion on the first year of the Saving Mothers Giving Life initiative, an effort to accelerate progress toward reducing maternal…

By: Alison Chatfield, Project Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative In 1993, the WHO undertook a comprehensive review of the references, charts and tools used to monitor and evaluate human growth across the world.  The…

By: Elizabeth Johansen, Director of Product Development, Design that Matters Well-designed medical technology has tremendous potential to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in developing countries. However, according to an influential Duke University…

This Wednesday, December 18, our colleagues at IDEAS will host this month’s edition of its monthly web seminar series.  This month’s seminar will focus on the issue of maternal, perinatal and child death reviews, drawing  on PMNCH Knowledge…

By: Nora Miller, Research Assistant, Respectful Maternity Care program, Women and Health Initiative Unlike many of its neighboring countries, where progress has been made toward the MDG 5 target of increasing the proportion of births with a skilled birth…

By: Natalie Ramm, Communications Coordinator, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative “Improving Maternal Health: Insights from around the world” was held Wednesday at the Harvard School of Public Health. We want to thank all…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant This year’s World Malaria Report finds that both incidence and deaths attributed to malaria have declined sharply since 2000. The report finds that as coverage of critical preventive and treatment measures has expanded…

By: Neal Lesh, Chief Strategy Officer, Dimagi Since 2008, Dimagi has helped organizations in 30 countries set up mobile projects with CommCare, an open source mobile platform that supports frontline workers (FLWs). CommCare is actively being used by over…

As we wrote last week, the MHTF is looking forward to hosting “Improving maternal health: Insights from around the world,” an event to celebrate our year two collection of new research on maternal health. The event will be held tomorrow, December 11 at…