GMHC2013 Series

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…

By: Ana Luisa Silva, Transaid As we get to the end of the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013, a three-day opportunity to discuss issues and share experiences on improving quality of maternal health care, I would like to highlight one of the…

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…

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.…

By: Dr. Nosa Orobaton, Chief of Party, Nigeria Targeted States High Impact Project (TSHIP), JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. There is a sense of timelessness in resplendent Arusha, Tanzania, the venue of the second Global Maternal Health…

By: Jocalyn Clark, Senior Magazine Editor, PLOS Medicine This blog post is cross-posted from Speaking of Medicine. It wasn’t easy to choose sessions today on the last day of the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013, the variety and caliber of…

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…

By: Hannah Ford, Communications Coordinator, The Road Less Travelled This blog post is cross-posted from The Road Less Travelled. In the Afar region of Ethiopia, 93 percent of mothers deliver their babies at home with the assistance of…

By: Dr. Mohammad Tariq, Country Director, USAID | DELIVER PROJECT/Islamabad, JSI This blog post is cross-posted from JSI’s The Pump. I’ve arrived at the Global Maternal Health Conference in Tanzania to present the results of two years of…

By: Jocalyn Clark, Senior Magazine Editor, PLOS Medicine This blog post is cross-posted from Speaking of Medicine. Today in Arusha, more than 700 delegates from around the world gathered to begin three days of presentation, discussion, and calls…