Archive: Jun 2015

Merging Marketing and Gender Analysis Perspectives on Family Planning in the DRC This July 2 webinar considers the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which has one of the world’s lowest rates of modern contraceptive use: 8% among all women of…

Yesterday, quality measures for maternal health were published in PLoS ONE in an attempt to fill the need for better definitions and tools for measuring and improving quality in labor and delivery (L&D) care. Over the past decade, we have seen a…

By: Arianna Taboada, Independent Research Consultant; Lauren French Hoy, Professional Midwife and Independent Research Consultant, MSM, CPM Last month, the Mexican Association of Midwifery (Asociación Mexicana de Partería or AMP) held their first…

How do we talk about mental illness in pregnancy? Well, we don’t. Not that we don’t know about it at all; pregnancy-related mental illness, for the most part, is well-recognised culturally. But it’s not what mothers talk about while they work and watch…

Yesterday, the MHTF, Pathfinder International and White Ribbon Alliance hosted a tweet chat on respectful maternity care. With the tweet chat, we hoped to bring organizations and people working in maternal health together on Twitter to talk…

Until recently, the health system in Ghana had been quite silent on maternal depression, which had a number of consequences on maternal and newborn outcomes. To address this need, The National Catholic Health Service, with funds from Grand Challenge…

Across most settings, and particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), antenatal care (ANC) is a critically missed opportunity to identify and support women with common mental health problems. ANC attendance in many LMICs is high and…

Medical systems have historically devalued women’s experience with illness, often resulting in diagnoses and treatments that are not appropriate or relevant for women’s lives. Postpartum depression is no exception. One way to design more responsive…

Having worked as neonatal nurses and educators for more than three decades collectively, we know that newborns who are born prematurely or sick are linked to either maternal perinatal health or the intrapartum experience. According to WHO, 45% of all…

Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) programmes frequently depend upon the capacity of the primary caregiver, more often than not, the mother, to provide optimal care for her young child. Increasingly, early childhood strategies recognize the…