Archive: 2014

By: Rose Mlay, National Coordinator, The White Ribbon Alliance Tanzania Throughout my career as a midwife, I am all too familiar with the challenge of women arriving too late to the hospital to give birth. Over and over again, I have attended to…

By: Deborah Billings, PhD; Filipa deCastro, PhD; Jean Marie Simms Place, PhD Read this post in Spanish here. What is postnatal depression? Postnatal depression is characterized by feelings of hopelessness, agitation, sadness, despondency,…

By: Shrey Desai, Research Coordinator at SEWA Rural Could you give us an overview of your work as it pertains to maternal health and/or mHealth? SEWA Rural is a voluntary organization with over three decades of experience of working with Community…

Ana Langer, Director of the Women and Health Initiative and the Maternal Health Task Force, and Robert LeVine, Roy Edward Larsen Professor of Education and Human Development, discussed the connection between literacy and health in a round table…

Princess Sarah Zeid, champion of the White Ribbon Alliance, is holding the World Bank accountable for reproductive health commitments. Her article on The Huffington Post earlier this week emphasized the importance of keeping maternal and newborn health…

By: Natalie Ramm, Communications Coordinator, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Rates of cesarean section are extremely high in certain countries like Brazil and the United States, among others, and dangerously low in others. The…

By: Alison Chatfield, Project Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Last week, 50 implementers, experts and donors from the mHealth and maternal health communities gathered in Boston for a meeting titled “mHealth for…

By: Venture Strategies Innovations As new post-2015 targets and strategies to end preventable maternal deaths are being discussed and debated, we have the opportunity to leverage the progress made over the past decade by scaling up proven…

By: Kathleen McDonald, Senior Program Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative; Natalie Ramm, Communications Coordinator, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Today, April 11, 2014 is the inaugural International…

Disrespect and abuse during childbirth happens all over the world and at an alarming rate. For example, about half of respondents in a 2012 survey identified lack of privacy, lack of informed consent, and verbal abuse, as examples of disrespect or abuse…