Contributor Posts

By: Charles Banda, Executive Director, Freshwater Malawi Imagine giving birth, or watching a loved one give birth, in a mud-floored hut without access to clean water or a basic latrine. This is the reality for millions of women in Malawi and other…

By: Ashley Holmer, Founder and Executive Director, Red Sweater Project It seems in the developed world we are consistently debating what is the best health care system: public versus private, access versus quality, confidentiality versus national reform…

By: Jordan Teague, Research Assistant, WASH Advocates When I arrived in the village of Bogu in the Northern Region of Ghana, the first thing I saw was a group of women and girls with metal buckets on their head, walking toward us. They were returning…

By: Koronel Mashalla Kema, Program Manager and Technical WASH leader, AMREF Tanzania. Based in Dar es Salaam, he is also a Paul Harris Fellow with Rotary International. As an engineer with a public health focus working with the African Medical &…

By: Rebecca Fishman, Director of Operations and Special Projects, WASH Advocates This guest post is the first in the series WASH & Women’s Health, which WASH Advocates is coordinating for the MHTF blog. Access to clean water is not only one…

By: Sara Buzadzhi, Communications Consultant, Health and Development Foundation I was recently able to view several sessions from the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013 online, and was particularly interested to hear about the maternal health texting…

By: Jim Campbell, Director, Instituto de Cooperacion Social Integrare based in Barcelona, Spain The Global Maternal Health Conference in Arusha, Tanzania had many highlights, including the closing plenary presentation from Dr. Mahmoud Fathalla ( watch…

By: Girija Sankar, Director of Haiti Programs, Senior Program Manager, Global Health Action Over 2000 abstracts were submitted to the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013. Eventually, around 800 delegates from all around the world presented papers…

By: Priya Agrawal, Executive Director, Merck for Mothers I recently returned from the Global Maternal Health Conference and have now had a chance to reflect on a fantastic week of high-energy, detailed discussions of how to deliver quality care for…

By: Ana Luisa Silva, Transaid As we get to the end of the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013, a three-day opportunity to discuss issues and share experiences on improving quality of maternal health care, I would like to highlight one of the…