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Group antenatal care, initially developed in the U.S. several decades ago, is a promising model that responds to women’s health and information concerns during pregnancy. Management Sciences for Health is testing the feasibility and acceptability of…

More than 60% of the world’s refugees and 80% of internally displaced persons now live in urban areas. However, a dearth of skilled birth attendants, such as doctors and midwives, in poor urban areas often leaves women and newborns at risk. On 31 May, a…

Six years ago, only 27% of women in Karamoja delivered in health facilities and the regional maternal mortality rate was 750 per 100,000 live births—among the highest in the world. Last year, 73% of Karamoja’s mothers delivered in health facilities, and…

To better understand the long-term outcomes of fistula repair, Makerere University in Uganda and the University of California, San Francisco recently conducted a longitudinal study to develop a measure of post-surgical reintegration success and document…

Kenya has a relatively high maternal mortality ratio at 488 deaths per 100,000 live births, and also faced substantial socioeconomic and geographic disparities. Many causes of maternal death can be prevented with timely access to high quality antenatal…

Diabetes in pregnancy is on the rise globally, currently affecting roughly 14 million women every year. As with most problems related to pregnancy complications, diabetes in pregnancy is more prevalent in low- and middle-income countries, which account…

On 15 March 2017, Management Sciences for Health, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Women Deliver, Novo Nordisk and the NCD Alliance hosted a panel discussion during the Commission on the Status of Women to call for the integration of the…

Last month, nearly 50 researchers, practitioners and advocates from across India, and a few from beyond its borders, gathered to discuss strategies for improving maternal health at the new Mumbai outpost of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health…

As part of the Advancing Dialogue Series on Maternal Health Series, the Wilson Center hosted a discussion to review findings from the "Midwives' Voices, Midwives' Realities" report and explore implications for global maternal and newborn health...read…

Obstetrician Neel Shah explains how a trip to India for the 2017 Human Rights in Childbirth meeting led him to a humbling realization: When it comes to childbirth, both India and the United States fall short in surprisingly similar ways. In both…