Archive: 2013

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…

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…