Contributor Posts

By: Koki Agarwal, Co-Chair, Role Back Malaria “Malaria in Pregnancy Working Group, Director, MCHIP This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. Malaria is a maternal and child health issue.…

By: Gary Darmstadt and Wendy Prosser, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation This post was originally posted on Impatient Optimists. With almost 200 million people living in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, a state more populous than the entire country…

By: Kate Teela, Erin Shutes, France Donnay and David Brandling-Bennett, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. By 2015, the Government of Nigeria aims for…

Guest post contributed by our colleagues at the Countdown to 2015 initiative Since 1990, annual maternal deaths have declined by almost one half and the deaths of young children have declined from 12 million to 7.6 million in 2010. Some of the…

By: Elaine Roman, Malaria Team Leader, MCHIP This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, malaria in pregnancy (MIP) programs are at a crossroads. While many…

By: Dr. Sylla Thiam, Malaria Programme Lead, AMREF This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. Pregnant women living in malaria-endemic regions are particularly vulnerable to the disease because…

This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. A couple of months ago, I had the chance to meet again with the members of the Plasmodium Vivax Infection in Pregnancy (PregVax) Consortium in Dehli,…

By: Rachel Wilson, Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy (PATH), Co-Chair (Maternal Health Supplies Working Group) Today could be the beginning of a significant, life-saving shift for maternal health. The United Nations Children’s Fund  and the…

By: Elena Chopyak, MPH Candidate, Harvard School of Public Health Over the first three weeks of January, several Harvard School of Public Health graduate students took part in the Field Experience in Maternal Health winter session, organized by the Women…

By: Nick Pearson, Founder and Managing Director, Jacaranda Health The following originally appeared on Jacaranda Health’s blog. It is posted here with permission Imagine waiting for six hours for antenatal visit, only to be seen by a nurse who…