Contributor Posts

By: Amy Boldosser, Senior Officer, Global Advocacy Program, Family Care International Amy Boldosser, a member of Family Care International’s global advocacy team, was in Toronto from Thursday through Sunday, for the G8 and G20 summits.  Amy’s…

By: Tim Thomas, Advisor, MHTF Our friends at the Global Health program at the Council on Foreign Relations recently distributed a report of what they’ve learned about the new-ish US Global Health Initiative with a bias toward girls and women, which both…

Over the past couple weeks, Dr. Fatouma Mabeye, the Medical Coordinator for WAHA International, and Dr. Joseph Ruminjo, the Clinical Director for the Fistula Care Project, have engaged in a lively public dialogue (via the MHTF Blog) around the use of…

On June 3rd, 2010, I posted a guest blog post from Dr. Fatouma Mabeye of WAHA International on a recent meeting in Benin of midwives from West and Central Africa. Dr. Mabeye explained that the goal of the meeting was to explore the role of midwives in…

By: Dr. Fatouma Mabeye, Medical Coordinator, WAHA International WAHA International and the National Midwives Association of Benin recently organized the first international midwives conference for midwife associations in West and Central Africa. The…

Written by Meagan Manas, MDiv, Women’s Ministries, National Council of Churches Fistula Stories is a faith-based 4-session curriculum for use in churches, campus ministries, and other community groups.  Through education,…

By: Emily George, RN, MPH, Hematology and Oncology Clinic, Boston Medical Center In honor of International Nurses Day, Emily George contributed a guest post to the MHTF. Emily is a registered nurseat Boston Medical Center.  She also holds an MPH in…

By: Monica Onyango, MPH, PhD, Member, MHTF Editorial Committee In honor of International Day of the Midwife last week (May 5th) and International Nurses Day (today), Monica Onyango, MHTF Editorial Committee member, reflects on the role of midwives and…

This guest blog post was written by the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases staff. According to the new maternal mortality estimates recently published in the Lancet, 342,900 women die annually while pregnant or from childbirth. This is a…

By: Lucia D’Ambruoso and David Braunholtz, IMMPACT The Maternal Health Task Force is looking to those working in maternal health to comment on the recent findings published in the Lancet that suggest a dramatic reduction in global maternal mortality. …