Archive: 2014

By: Christy Turlington Burns, Founder, Every Mother Counts Anniversaries make us look back and project forward on all the events and opportunities that bring us closer to our goals.  As we celebrate the first anniversary of the Maternal Health…

In a post featured last week on Family Care International’s blog, Vice President Martha Murdock provides an in-depth discussion of A Price too High to Bear, a new report documenting the far-reaching consequences of maternal deaths on families in Kenya.…

April 4th, 2014 8:30am-5:30am EST Thompson Room, Barker Center 12 Quincy Street Harvard University Cambridge, MA The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard and the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality invite you to…

By: Ciro Franco, Senior Principal Technical Advisor for MNCH In celebration of the one-year anniversary of the Manifesto for Maternal Health, Management Sciences for Health (MSH) congratulates our global community, including ministries of health,…

By: Purnima Mane, Pathfinder I recall reading the Manifesto for Maternal Health with appreciation for the strategies delineated but regret that many of the actions identified had not received the deserved attention earlier. I felt optimistic that…

As we near the end of the Millennium Development Goals in 2015, the maternal health community must come together to ensure that maternal health remains on the international agenda. This week and next week, the Maternal Health Task Force will host…

Written by: USAID’s Bureau for Global Health Can you imagine a world where all mothers give birth safely?  At the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), we are working to make that vision a reality.  We are re-imagining…

Written by: Mamaye.org At MamaYe we believe that all mothers and their babies deserve respectful care. We also think that midwives, nurses, doctors and other healthworkers are heroes and heroines whose hard work should be celebrated. MamaYe…

One aspect of the Maternal Health Task Force’s mission is to increase access to critical maternal health information and evidence. We know that language can be a barrier to access, especially since the scientific literature is primarily in English. As…

One year ago, The Lancet published “A Manifesto for Maternal Health post-2015,” co-authored by Ana Langer, Richard Horton, and Guerino Chalamilla. The manifesto incorporates ideas—including women-centered care, respectful care, sustainability,…