Archive: Mar 2017

Obstetrician Neel Shah explains how a trip to India for the 2017 Human Rights in Childbirth meeting led him to a humbling realization: When it comes to childbirth, both India and the United States fall short in surprisingly similar ways. In both…

Today is a very special International Women’s Day because this year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, a global movement to reduce maternal mortality. The maternal health field has made considerable progress over the last…

The Department of Reproductive Health and Research at the World Health Organization seeks expert insight into two key areas: defining maternal death and clarifying skilled attendant at birth. Please read and share the full call for comments for more…

Interested in a position in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child or adolescent health? Every month, the Maternal Health Task Force rounds up job and internship postings from around the globe. This month, we are featuring positions at Jhpiego, White…

The government of Malawi recently hosted national and global health leaders in its capital, Lilongwe, to launch the Network for Improving the Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (the Network). The vision is an ambitious one — to halve…

Adolescent girls, particularly those living in low-resource settings, are uniquely vulnerable during pregnancy and childbirth - but many do not receive high quality antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care. A recent systematic review examined the…