Maternal Health

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…

This week on the MHTF blog: What to do after 2015? Antenatal and postnatal care as a way to address family planning? New estimates of neonatal mortality An update on knowledge translation from ICDDR,B Some reading for the weekend …

The following is part of a series of project updates from the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B). The MHTF is supporting their project, Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Translation in Bangladesh. More information on…

By: Mikkel Oestergaard and Colin Mathers, World Health Organization The following post originally appeared on the Healthy Newborn Network blog. It is reposted here with permission. Where you are born matters tremendously for your risk of dying within…

Increasing access to modern contraceptive methods is a priority in many countries. However, how best to reach women and provide family planning is not always clear. A new report from MEASURE Evaluation suggests that maternal health services, particularly…

With the deadline of 2015 for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) fast approaching, many people are discussing the possibilities for global frameworks after 2015. We discussed the topic on GlobalMama, and Women Deliver is running a series of posts…

Last week, Rajiv Shah, the USAID Administrator, wrote a piece for the Huffington Post about Saving Lives at Birth, a topic we covered earlier on the blog. Shah writes: Grand Challenges are designed to mobilize the world’s brightest thinkers,…

This week on the MHTF blog: Margaret Catley-Carlson kicked off our WASH for Mothers series Haitian women are crossing into the DR to access care Grace Kodindo wrote about the importance of clean water for pregnancy Anangu Rajasingham…

By: Emily Hsu, EngenderHealth The following post originally appeared on EngenderHealth’s blog. It is reposted here with permission. Governments have a human rights obligation to guarantee women’s access to timely and nondiscriminatory…

By: Anangu Rajasingham, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The following post is part of a series of posts exploring water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and maternal health. It is written by Anangu Rajasingham from the US Centers for Disease…