Day 2 of the #MNHIntegration Technical Meeting
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Day 1 of the #MNHIntegration Technical Meeting
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Part 2: The Continuum of Care: Call the Midwife
By: Petra ten Hoope-Bender, Director of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, ICS Integrare; Sheetal Sharma, Research and Knowledge Management Associate, ICS Integrare
This post is part of our “Continuum of Care” blog series hosted…
First International Standards to Assess Fetal Growth and the Size of Newborns at Birth
By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
For the first time, the world has international standards for both fetal growth and newborn size. These standards have been developed by a…
Part 1: What Women Want and Need vs. What They Get
By: Petra ten Hoope-Bender, Director of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, ICS Integrare; Sheetal Sharma, Research and Knowledge Management Associate, ICS Integrare
This post is part of our “Continuum of Care” blog series hosted…
Addressing Barriers for Midwifery Care in Mexico: Interview With Cris Alonso
Luna Maya is a midwife-run birth center in Chiapas, Mexico. This the second part of a two-part edited conversation with its director, Cris Alonso. To read the first part of this interview click here.
Q. What have been some of the primary…
Implementation of a New WHO Antenatal Care Model in Thailand
By: Pisake Lumbiganon, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University
This post is part of our “Continuum of Care” blog series hosted by the Maternal Health Task Force
Background
Theoretically antenatal care (ANC) should promote good pregnancy…
Increasing Midwifery Care in Mexico: Interview With Cris Alonso
Luna Maya is a midwife-run birth center in Chiapas, Mexico. It was created in 2004 through a MacArthur Foundation (MAF) statewide initiative to reduce maternal mortality in Chiapas. Despite many years of interventions and investment, the maternal…
Building Management Capacities in Maternal Health Clinical Leaders
By: Priya Agrawal, Executive Director, Merck for Mothers
Do management capacities in clinicians really matter for maternal health? This is a key question that MSD for Mothers, along with some of its partners, is trying to tackle. MSD for Mothers is a…
Ebola’s Victims: Not Just Those it Infects
By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Ebola’s victims are not just the people it infects, and eventually kills, but anyone who needs to access the health system in Sierra Leona,…