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New Content Added to the MHTF-PLOS Maternal Health Collection
By: Jocalyn Clark, Senior Magazine Editor, PLOS Medicine Image credit: Jack Zalium, Richard Basset We’re delighted to announce the addition of new content to our Maternal Health Task Force-PLOS Collection on Maternal Health. This Year 2…

Creating a Maternal Health Movement
By: Mariam Claeson, France Donnay and Melanie Walker, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation This post is cross-posted from Impatient Optimists. Although it was intended to create space for the maternal health community to get together to discuss…

Yes We Can, and This is Why We Do It Every Day
By: Karen Beattie, Director of Fistula Care and Associate Vice President of EngenderHealth This post is cross-posted from the EngenderHealth website. Reflections from a lifelong global women’s health advocate on the closing ceremony of the Global…

Building a Global Network of Maternal Health Policymakers
By: Sandeep Bathala, Senior Program Associate, Maternal Health Initiative, Wilson Center This post is cross-posted from the New Security Beat. On day three of the 2013 Global Maternal Health Conference here in Arusha, Tanzania, I was joined by the…

Placing Women at the Center: Rethinking the RMNCH Continuum of Care
By: Ann Starrs, President and Co-Founder, Family Care International This post is cross-posted from the FCI Blog and the PMNCH website. Last week’s Global Maternal Health Conference (GMHC), held in Arusha, Tanzania, was both inspiring and sobering.…

Exploring Possible Synergies Between Maternal Health and WASH
By: Lauren Herzer, Wilson Center This blog post is cross-posted from the New Security Beat. Does access to quality water and sanitation have an effect on maternal health outcomes? That was a surprising topic of discussion on day one of the…

Improving Access to Maternal Health Knowledge and Information
By: Jocalyn Clark, Senior Magazine Editor, PLOS Medicine This blog post is cross-posted from Speaking of Medicine. I had the pleasure today of officially launching the Year 1 Open Access Collection on Maternal Health that PLOS has developed with…