Archive: 2013

According to the International Conference on Family Planning website, “Today, one in four people on earth are aged 10-25. It is the largest population of youth in history. Young people’s beliefs and decisions about family planning are critical to…

By: Dr. Alice Self, Sandwell General Hospital, Lyndon, West Bromwich; Hannah Knight, Research Fellow, Health Informatics, Office for Research and Clinical Audit, Lindsay Stewart R&D Centre, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists It can be…

The Lancet Global Health, the recently launched open-access global health journal of The Lancet, has published new national and regional estimates of term and preterm babies who are born small for gestational age in low and middle income countries. The…

A new study, published last month in the Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health, shares an analysis of two decades of CDC data showing that midwife-attended deliveries are on the rise in the United States. In fact, the report shows that the rate of…

The Lancet has launched a new open-access global health journal! According to Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, open-access publishing is something he and others at The Lancet have wanted to do for a long time. In this video, Horton chats with Zoë…

An expected 10,000 delegates will soon gather in Cape Town, South Africa for the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA). The conference, with the theme of Now more than ever: targeting zero, will be held from December 7-11, 2013. The…

By: Ann Starrs, President and Co-Founder, Family Care International   Two years ago, in July 2011, UNAIDS  launched a joint initiative with PEPFAR, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, to help achieve the goal of an AIDS-free…

By: Janet M. Turan, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Health Care Organization and Policy, Maternal and Child Health Concentration, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham Pregnant women living with HIV often experience…

From New York to Dar es Salaam to Chiapas, several global health and development organizations are hiring for exciting positions that focus on improving maternal health. In this post, the MHTF shares a round-up of ten recently posted maternal health jobs…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative Over the past year, the Saving Mothers, Giving Life (SMGL) partnership has worked to address the alarming levels of maternal mortality in Uganda and Zambia.…