Archive: Jul 2014

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Convening as a maternal health community is key to improving awareness, knowledge, and our momentum to ensure health for women and their families.…

By: Sarah Dwyer, Communications Manager, CapacityPlus/IntraHealth International This post is part of our “Supporting the Human in Human Resources” blog series co-hosted by the Maternal Health Task Force and Jacaranda Health “Things…

By: Rebecca Sheldon, Communications, MCHIP This article was originally posted by MCHIP on July 18th, 2014 In recent years, Cambodia has received international praise for improvements in maternal and child health. The Ministry…

By: Helen de Pinho, Associate Director, Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program, Columbia University; Shanon McNab, Senior Program Officer, Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program, Columbia University This post is part of…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health A new wave of attention and research is now focused on one of the world’s most vulnerable populations: adolescents. In the developing world, there…

By: Vandana Tripathi, Deputy Director, Fistula Care Plus, EngenderHealth EngenderHealth, which leads the USAID-supported Fistula Care Plus (FC+) project, and the Maternal Health Task Force recently co-convened two meetings on obstetric fistula in Boston,…

By: Mary Nell Wegner, Executive Director, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative On July 8-11, the MHTF had the privilege of co-hosting two meetings with the Fistula Care Plus project, led by EngenderHealth. It was a terrific opportunity…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health A quarter of HIV-positive women surveyed in Mesoamerica reported health care workers pressured them into sterilization, recent research shows. This…

By: Paige Sholar, Writing and Communications Intern, Penda Health This post is part of our “Supporting the Human in Human Resources” blog series co-hosted by the Maternal Health Task Force and Jacaranda Health. Penda Health has built a chain of…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Antenatal care has long been viewed as a critical component of comprehensive maternal and newborn health care, together with care at the time…