Archive: 2015

By: Francesca Cameron, Program Assistant, the Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative Fear of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and other infectious diseases has been used as an excuse to deny women health care around the world. Some women…

By: Rebeccah Bartlett, UNC-IntraHealth Summer Fellow, IntraHealth International When I volunteered in a maternity ward in the Philippines in September 2013, I had about 18 months of experience under my belt as a midwife and a couple more years as a…

SPRING Events Manager: JSI, Rosslyn, Va Consultant to help with Social and Behavior Change Interventions Targeting Service Providers for malaria in pregnancy: Johns Hopkins Univeristy, HC3 Project Monitoring & Evaluation Advisor:…

By: Ana Langer, Director of the Maternal Health Task Force and Women and Health Initiative; Annie Kearns, Project Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative This was originally posted on the Healthy Newborn Network Blog. A…

Since the 90s and especially during the last decade, Morocco has made significant improvement in terms of maternal and child health (MCH). Continuous efforts during two decades resulted in cutting-down the maternal mortality ratio by 66%. This…

This Wilson Center event, Restoring Hope and Dignity: New Developments and Best Practices in Addressing Maternal Morbidities, supported by the MHTF, will feature a panel presentation of the newest data and best practices from those who work most closely…

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There are so many ways to become famous; unfortunately West Africa will mark human being history by being the area on Earth which experienced the worst Ebola outbreak. Ebola disease was known since 1976, but in this part of the world, no one was having…

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…