Maternal Health

Today’s Washington Post draws attention to an influx of mothers seeking care after crossing a border into an already strained health system. According to the report, each year, and especially since the 2010 earthquake, thousands of Haitian women…

By: Margaret Catley-Carlson, Chair of the Board of the Crop Diversity Trust, and the Foresight Advisory Committee for Group Suez Environment The following post is part of a series of posts, WASH for Mothers, exploring water, sanitation, and hygiene…

This week on the MHTF blog: An excerpt from Women Deliver’s Beyond 2015 series C-sections are on the rise in Iraq We announced our upcoming “WASH for Mothers” series Nick Pearson discussed the launch of Jacaranda Health …

By: Emily Puckart, Program Associate, MHTF Jacaranda Health is combining business and clinical innovations to create mobile health clinics with a high standard maternity care for women located in the peri-urban areas of Nairobi and I recently visited…

By: Nick Pearson, Founder and Managing Director, Jacaranda Health The following was originally posted on Jacaranda’s blog. It is reposted here with permission Five weeks ago, Jacaranda Health opened our doors to the low-income mothers of…

“Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and, therefore, a basic human right. Contaminated water jeopardizes both the physical and social health of all people. It is an affront to human dignity.” –Kofi Annan WASH (water,…

Most of the news out of Iraq revolves around the war and violence. Even for those of us that work in the maternal health field, maternal health in Iraq isn’t something we hear a lot about. Given the difficultly of getting maternal health data in…

Women Deliver has been hosting a discussion of what global frameworks might exists in post-Millennium Development Goal world after 2015 in a series “Beyond 2015.” Last week, Andy Sumner of the Institute of Development Studies and the Center…

This week on the MHTF blog: Maternal mortality ratio in rural Mali Young Champion Zubaida Bai is among the finalists for the Index: Award 2011 Submit an abstract for the Global Health & Innovation Conference Read final reports and other…

Date: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 Time: 9:30 to 11:00 AM Location: PATH 10th Floor, Room 1061 455 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20001, USA (Please note new location) Please join the Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project for a panel…