Maternal Health

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…

Yesterday, we had the opportunity to go to the Population Council’s New York office for a Poverty, Gender and Youth Seminar with Esther Duflo from MIT. As a coauthor (along with Abhijit V. Banerjee) of the recently published Poor Economics: A Radical…

DataDyne, the United Nations Foundation, the Vodafone Foundation, and the mHealth Alliance invite you to join us in person or via webinar for mHealth Tools 101: Turning Ideas Into Action with special guests Peter Benjamin General Manager,…

Insufficient funding for maternal health has been identified as a major obstacle in achieving MDG5, so the MHTF commissioned Global Heath Visions to conduct a landscaping of all the existing and potential maternal health donors based in the US. Some…

By: Shafia Rashid, Senior Program Officer, Global Advocacy, Family Care International The following was originally published on the FCI blog. It is reposted here with permission Last week, the WHO Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential…

May 19, 2011 Dear Colleagues: It has been several months since you lent your support to add misoprostol for prevention and treatment of post-partum hemorrhage (PPH) to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Model List of Essential Medicines. The…

This week on the MHTF blog: Dr. Yetnayet Asfaw of EngederHealth was interviewed on PBS Kate Kerber and Ribka Amsalu of Save the Children wrote about maternal and newborn survival in crises We discussed income shocks and birth outcomes …

Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is the leading cause of maternal mortality, accounting for about 25% of all maternal deaths. Misprostol is an easy to use drug that is shown to be successful in preventing PPH. Earlier this month, the World Health Organization…

A recent study (PDF) by Alfredo Burlando of the University of Oregon on income shocks, maternal nutrition and infant health was highlighted on the World Bank’s Development Impact blog, an excellent resource for people interested in impact…

By: Kate Kerber and Ribka Amsalu, Save the Children The following post originally appeared on the Healthy Newborn Network blog. It is reposted here with permission Imagine you are eight months pregnant with your third child with two other young…