Archive: 2017

The World Health Organization, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) and Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health recently released an evidence map of social, behavioral and community engagement interventions for reproductive,…

On 2 November 2017, Otilia Perichart-Perera joined the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) for a panel discussion about noncommunicable diseases and maternal health. Later, she sat down with the MHTF’s Sarah Hodin to talk more about the issues she raised…

Reducing HIV and AIDS-related stigma and gender discrimination, increasing family and social support for HIV-positive women during and after pregnancy and mobilizing communities to promote respectful, high quality, integrated HIV and maternal newborn…

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. In this month’s roundup, we are featuring positions at…

We are excited to announce the upcoming dialogue, “Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Safe Motherhood Initiative.” The event will take place at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. (and online!) on Friday, 8 December 2017 from 1:00pm – 5:00pm ET.…

Over the past year, Kenya’s public health system has faced numerous health worker strikes. While political action is underway, what can health program managers do to prevent maternal and newborn deaths? Maternal and newborn health programs in Bungoma,…

Cambodia has made huge gains in bringing down maternal mortality. According to the latest data, nearly 90% of all births in Cambodia now take place under the care of a skilled birth attendant. But in remote provinces like Rattanakiri, progress is only…

Prematurity is the leading underlying cause of death in children under five years, with over one million babies dying each year worldwide due to complications of preterm birth. For those who survive, the consequences of being born too soon can…

In 2015, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation launched an initiative to strengthen professional midwifery in Mexico, where roughly 23,000 traditional midwives provide care for less than 3% of the nearly 2.4 million births annually. Despite…

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth recently published a special supplement featuring several open access papers about women’s health, gender and empowerment...read more