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INZI + NGOZI - A Story About Respectful Care

Written by: Mamaye.org At MamaYe we believe that all mothers and their babies deserve respectful care. We also think that midwives, nurses, doctors and other healthworkers are heroes and heroines whose hard work should be celebrated. MamaYe…

Preventing Maternal Deaths in Africa

By: Isabella Danel, MD, MS, the CDC Division of Reproductive Health This post originally appeared on the CDC’s Our Global Voices blog. Maternal health has improved in most regions of the world, with far fewer women dying during pregnancy…

Equipped With a Checklist: Bringing Postnatal Care to the Community

By: Allison Ettenger, Program Manager, Jacaranda Health Cross-posted from the Jacaranda Health blog Joyce*, a healthy mother, glows as she admires her new baby. Her husband  collects her belongings as she prepares to leave Jacaranda Maternity,…

African Leaders Urge Action to Meet (and Succeed) MDG 5

By: Laurie Mazur, Consultant on Population and the Environment for the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program Cross-posted from New Security Beat, the blog of the Wilson Center.  As world leaders gathered at the UN for…

Charting the Way to a Fistula-free Generation

By: Dr. Joseph Ruminjo, EngenderHealth; Pamela Barnes, EngenderHealth This post was originally posted on the Huffington Post’s Global Motherhood blog. We are thrilled to be in Uganda to recognize the achievements of…