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By: Tiffany Clark and Emily Forsyth Queen, USAID Traction Project Today marked the first day of Measuring advocacy for policy change: The case for respectful maternity care, a meeting convened in Cambridge, MA by the MHTF and the USAID Traction Project.…

By: Dr. Alice Self, Sandwell General Hospital, Lyndon, West Bromwich; Hannah Knight, Research Fellow, Health Informatics, Office for Research and Clinical Audit, Lindsay Stewart R&D Centre, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists It can be…

By: Ann Starrs, President and Co-Founder, Family Care International   Two years ago, in July 2011, UNAIDS  launched a joint initiative with PEPFAR, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, to help achieve the goal of an AIDS-free…

By: Janet M. Turan, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Health Care Organization and Policy, Maternal and Child Health Concentration, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham Pregnant women living with HIV often experience…

By: Dr. Jean Anderson, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Jhpiego; Kelly Curran, Jhpiego, MCHIP; Laura Fitzgerald, Jhpiego, MCHIP Decisions about whether a woman and her partner want to have children, how many they might want to have, and when they might…

By: Sonia Haerizadeh, Law Fellow, International Community of Women Living with HIV In order to prevent vertical transmission of HIV, it is critical that the perspectives and concerns of women living with HIV are meaningfully considered. Therefore, to…

By: Jacqueline Kingfield, World Health Partners In India, 212 out of every 100,00 women die in childbirth.  In Uttar Pradesh (UP), India’s largest state where over 200 million people live, this number is almost double – 359 out of every…

By: Ann Starrs, President and Co-Founder, Family Care International; France Donnay, Senior Program Officer, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Gary L. Darmstadt, Director of Family Health, Bill & Melinda Gates…

Guest post by Fistula Care.  With just 1 midwife for every 1000 live births, Sierra Leone needs a twelve-fold increase in its midwifery workforce to ensure full coverage of maternal and newborn health services.  It is tempting to focus…

By: Kate Leisner, Communications Specialist, WAHA International Dignified healthcare hinges upon community involvement at every level. That is why Women and Health Alliance (WAHA) International is working to make sure that the rural communities of…