Maternal Health

At the MHTF, we support a lot of innovative projects, from mobile clinics in Nairobi to mobile applications. However, the most important aspect of innovation and new technologies are not how cool they sound or how easily they can be sold to investors or…

The Young Champions of Maternal Health were selected via an Ashoka Changemakers competition. Ashoka is teaming up with Boehringer Ingelheim for another competition that seeks innovation solutions to promote individual and community health. The deadline…

The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative in coordination with the Maternal Health Task Force and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) invite you to a discussion of:   Silent Suffering: Maternal Morbidities in Developing…

The financing scheme in Sierra Leone that provides free health care to pregnant women, lactating mothers and children under five is one that we’ve covered before on the blog and the MH Buzz. Many of the discussions about the program have indicated…

This week on the MHTF blog: Joy Lawn wrote about neonatal mortality in Africa We announced our upcoming move to the Harvard School of Public Health mothers2mothers updated us on their PMTCT project CIESAS began analyzing their data Some…

The following is part of a series of project updates from the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia (CIESAS). MHTF is supporting their project, Evaluation of ALSO Program. More information on MHTF supported projects can be found…

The following is part of a series of project updates from mothers2mothers. MHTF is supporting their project, Using Cell Phones in PMTCT. More information MHTF supported projects can be found here. Implementation of mothers2mothers’ active client…

Dear MHTF friends and colleagues, During the past three years, the MHTF has built vital connections among maternal health initiatives and engaged global and national experts to pinpoint problems facing the maternal health community and identify…

A new three-year, $12 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will support a Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) effort to significantly improve maternal health in developing countries. The project will be led by Dr. Ana Langer,…

By: Joy Lawn, Director Global Evidence and Policy, Saving Newborn Lives-Save the Children-US The following post originally appeared on the Healthy Newborn Network blog. It is reposted here with permission If you were born today in Africa, you would…