Archive: Dec 2014

Today, WHO released the annual World Malaria Report for 2014. This report reviews the state of malaria throughout the world and also provides 98 country profiles detailing epidemiologic, policy, financing, intervention coverage, and impact information.…

Check out the following opportunities in Maternal Health from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, PATH, Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action, EngenderHealth and the International Conference on Urban…

The maternal health community has been hard at work the last two weeks with several key events and exciting accomplishments. UN passes historic resolution on ending child marriage – November 21 In the 69th session of the General Assembly, 116…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) is pleased to announce the publication of a themed supplement to the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency…

This World AIDS Day, let’s keep mothers in mind. Maternal mortality and HIV remain the two leading causes of death among women of reproductive age. Forty-seven percent of people living with HIV worldwide are women. Many factors such as intimate partner…