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By: Alison Chatfield, Project Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Are newborn growth charts one size fits all? Are growth charts developed based on how babies in the U.S. have grown in the past applicable in the U.S. today,…

The fact that nearly one in three women globally has experienced intimate partner violence, a form of gender-based violence (GBV), is widely known. But can you easily name a situation where GBV occurs in the healthcare system? GBV is a worldwide problem…

By: Denise Raquel Dunning, Founder/Executive Director, Let Girls Lead Nigeria, one of the richest countries in Africa, also boasts one of the world’s highest rates of maternal, newborn, and child death. One in 13 Nigerian women dies during…

By Ana Langer, Director, Maternal Health Task Force and Joy Riggs-Perla, Director, Save the Children's Saving Newborn Lives program. When thinking about the term integration for maternal and newborn health care we need to keep our focus with the intended…

By Mohammod Shahidullah, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neonatology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University The continuum of care has become a rallying call to reduce the maternal deaths, stillbirths, neonatal deaths, and child deaths.…

By Rornald Muhumuza Kananura In the blog—Who is to blame for the Poor Health Workers Attitudes and how can we cure This Disease by Dr. Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho—it was indicated that some women have opted to give birth at home rather than face the wrath…

Imagine you are a physician working in a rural health center in a developing country. You’re helping a woman deliver her baby, and it’s just arrived but is not breathing. Meanwhile, the mother has started to hemorrhage. You’re the only one working in the…

By Emily Maistrellis, Policy Coordinator, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights Walif was only 16 and his younger sister, Nassim, just 11 when their mother died in childbirth in Butajira, Ethiopia. Both Walif and Nassim had been promising students,…

By: Cecilia Garcia Ruiz, Gender Projects Coordinator, Espolea Working on the phenomenon of adolescent and young motherhood requires a deep understanding of the various structural factors leading to early pregnancies and parenting. As my team and I have…

By: Amy Boldosser-Boesch, Interim President of Global Advocacy, Family Care International This year’s UN General Assembly was full of high-profile moments that reinforced the need for investment and action to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn and…