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By: Manuelle Hurwitz, Senior Adviser, Abortion, International Planned Parenthood Federation; Rebecca Wilkins, Programme Officer, Abortion, International Planned Parenthood Federation IPPF welcomes the research released by IHME and the WHO providing new…

By: Dr. Jeffrey Smith, Maternal Health Team Leader, MCSP; Lindsay Grenier, Maternal Health Technical Advisor, MCSP ; Susan Moffson, MCSP Senior Program Officer Obstetrician Dr. Mark Hathaway—a trainer for USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Health…

By: Susan Moffson, MCSP Senior Program Officer The MHTF has relaunched our Respectful Maternity Care blog series in response to the inaugural International Day for Maternal Health and Rights, which sparked many questions: How can women’s health rights…

By: Bethany Cole, Global Projects Manager, Fistula Care Plus, EngenderHealth From 2007-2013 Engender Health managed the Fistula Care project in partnership with IntraHealth International and supported by USAID. The project worked in ten countries to…

By: Mengistu Hailemariam, MD, Maternal Health Advisor, Ministry of Health, Ethiopia The April 2014 Technical Consultation on Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality, Post-2015 Target Setting (EPMM) meeting in Bangkok yielded invaluable implications for…

By: Affette McCaw-Binns, Professor of Reproductive Health and Epidemiology, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica In the same week IHME and the WHO provided the maternal health community with much on which to masticate; regional data on the causes…

By: Robina Biteyi, National Coordinator, White Ribbon Alliance Uganda In Uganda we are witnessing a recent increase in maternal deaths . We once reported that 16 women die every day in our country, but that number has now increased to 17. White…

Guest post by Averting Maternal Disability and Death (AMDD) and SAHAYOG Despite the investment of enormous resources by India’s central government and the Uttar Pradesh state government in creating demand for facility childbirth and ensuring free…

By: Rose Mlay, National Coordinator, The White Ribbon Alliance Tanzania Throughout my career as a midwife, I am all too familiar with the challenge of women arriving too late to the hospital to give birth. Over and over again, I have attended to…

By: Deborah Billings, PhD; Filipa deCastro, PhD; Jean Marie Simms Place, PhD Read this post in Spanish here. What is postnatal depression? Postnatal depression is characterized by feelings of hopelessness, agitation, sadness, despondency,…