Archive: Aug 2017

One strategy that Rwanda has used to improve maternal health is engaging voluntary community health workers known as Animatrice de Santé Maternelle (ASMs). ASMs provide several services including health promotion and education, monitoring and reporting…

World Water Week is a reminder to the public health community that more than 600 million people around the globe do not have a safe water source nearby. Water, sanitation and hygiene play a crucial role in improving maternal health outcomes during…

Understanding women’s experiences during childbirth is an important component of addressing issues related to the quality of maternal health care. However, measuring the quality of maternal health care, and specifically women’s experiences, is…

A group of researchers from the University of Liverpool, Gynuity Health Projects and the Government Medical College, Nagpur recently conducted a randomized controlled trial to compare the efficacy, safety and acceptability of two low-cost methods for…

On 14 July 2017, as part of the Advancing Dialogue on Maternal Health Series, providers, advocates, researchers and policymakers gathered at the Wilson Center to discuss measuring progress towards improving maternal health under the Sustainable…

Women and children living in conflict or post-conflict settings are particularly vulnerable. The collapse of health infrastructure, issues related to gender-based violence and a lack of access to high quality health care—particularly during pregnancy and…

Women and children often bear the greatest burden in the wake of natural disasters, especially when they occur in low-resource settings. Part two of our three-part series on humanitarian settings explores the effects of the 2015 Nepal earthquake on…

Humanitarian crises—defined as events or series of events that represent a critical threat to the health, safety, security or wellbeing of a community or other large group of people—present unique challenges for women and children. This three-part series…

The Maternal Health Task Force’s Sarah Hodin interviewed Jessica Cohen and Margaret McConnell about their study, “Precommitment, cash transfers, and timely arrival for birth: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Nairobi Kenya,” that explored…

In June 2017, at the 31st International Confederation of Midwives Triennial Congress in Toronto, Canada, the United States Agency for International Development–supported Fistula Care Plus (FC+) project at EngenderHealth convened a panel discussion…