Archive: 2014

By: Dr. Jeffrey Smith, Maternal Health Team Leader, MCSP; Lindsay Grenier, Maternal Health Technical Advisor, MCSP ; Susan Moffson, MCSP Senior Program Officer Obstetrician Dr. Mark Hathaway—a trainer for USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Health…

By: Susan Moffson, MCSP Senior Program Officer The MHTF has relaunched our Respectful Maternity Care blog series in response to the inaugural International Day for Maternal Health and Rights, which sparked many questions: How can women’s health rights…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The causes of maternal and neonatal mortality are largely preventable. Apart from life-saving commodities, well-trained and skilled health care…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Hundreds of thousands of women die every year giving birth. The leading causes of these deaths—hemorrhage, infection, and eclampsia—are mostly…

By: Nasir Umar, Country Coordinator Nigeria, IDEAS Project Eight months ago a state of emergency was declared across northeast Nigeria due to internal conflict. Residents have had their movement, mobile phone and internet use restricted. Last month, I…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health High rates of maternal and newborn deaths affect many countries around the world. Malawi, which currently has the 24th highest maternal…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health During the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) congress this week in Prague, The Lancet announced its plan…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health On May 24th, 2014 a critical commitment was made to newborn health: All 194 member states endorsed the Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP)at the…

Yesterday, the MHTF joined with UNFPA, ICM, MCHIP, Jhpiego, Girls Globe, Women Deliver, Johnson & Johnson, Save the Children, and the UN Foundation to take part in a Twitter Chat to talk about the State of the World’s Midwifery. As of yesterday, the…

From UNFPA press release Despite a steady drop in maternal and newborn deaths since 1990, hundreds of thousands of women and newborns continue to die each year during pregnancy and childbirth: an estimated 289,000 women and about 3 million newborn…