Maternal Health

The following is part of a series of project updates from the Department of Community Medicine at Rajarata University of Sri Lanka. MHTF is supporting their project, Measuring Economic Impact of Maternal Morbidity. More information on MHTF supported…

By: Raji Mohanam, The MHTF has long been a proponent of mobile health (mHealth) technology and its potential to improve maternal health outcomes.  A MHTF-supported project undertaken by Medic Mobile announced a breakthrough this week at the mHealth…

The following is part of a series of project updates from Future Generations. MHTF is supporting their project, Using Pregnancy Histories to Help Mothers, based in Peru. More information on MHTF supported projects can be found here. Written by: Future…

This week on the MHTF blog: A photo essay on maternal health in Afghanistan The Young Champions of Maternal Health reflected on their projects and experiences Kate Mitchell wrote about conditional cash transfers in India Claire Bangser…

USAID has extended the deadline for a major grant on technology for health. From the announcement: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) seeks to award up to two five-year cooperative agreements (combined total of $50…

By: Claire Bangser, Senior Program Manager, Ashoka The following post originally appeared Ashoka’s blog. It is reposted here with permission. Nine months ago, fifteen complete strangers in twelve different countries independently packed their…

By: Kate Mitchell, Clinton Fellow The following was originally published on Kate’s blog, Maternal Mortality Daily, and is reposted here with permission. This post is the first in a series on maternal health in the Seraikela block of Jharkhand,…

Save the Children’s Mothers Index was published earlier this month and ranks Afghanistan as the worst place for mothers. The following photo essay was originally published on the Health Newborn Network blog. It is reposted here with permission. …

This week on the MHTF blog: We posted reactions from FCI and Gynuity, VSI and RHTP to the approval of misoprostol to prevent PPH Global Health Visions wrote a report on maternal health donors We listened to Esther Duflo at the Population…

At the MHTF, we have a mandate to build consensus within the maternal health community on a variety of issues based on evidence. A recent trial in Africa, publish in the New England Journal of Medicine has found that a routine treatment for children…