Maternal Health

Advocating for Maternal Health and Neglected Tropical Diseases
Christopher Lindahl, of the MHTF, recently wrote a post for the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases on the links between maternal health and neglected tropical diseases as global health issues. Be sure to check it out.

Map Enhancements
Working with Women Deliver, we’ve created a map documenting organizations working in maternal health throughout the world. As the map has become more populated, we realized that additional features were needed to enhance the users’…

Making Acccountability Count
By: Ann Starrs, President and Co-Founder, Family Care International When UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon formally launched the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health last September during the 2010 UN General Assembly meeting, a range of…

OpenIDEO Challenge: Maternal Health
OpenIDEO, a collaborative design challenge, hosted by the design firm IDEO, Oxfam, and Nokia, recently developed a challenge focusing on maternal health and mhealth. For the next four weeks, they are soliciting inspiration from people working in global…

Best Practices in Integrating HIV and MCH
The following is a letter from the Centre for Development and Population Activities, an MHTF-supported project, that is seeking case studies for best practices with regard to integration of HIV and maternal health. For more information on the project or…

Weekend Reading
Recently on the MHTF blog: Wendy J. Graham spoke about maternal mortality estimation EngenderHealth Medical Director Roy Jacobstein wrote about contraceptive implants in the UK Anrudh K. Jain reacted to a maternal death in India Some…

Clean Birth Kits Working Group Update
The Clean Birth Kits Working Group held its summative meeting in Washington, D.C last week. Claudia Morrisey, from Saving Newborn Lives, provides a good summary of some of the work done by the CBK Working Group on the Healthy Newborn Network blog: In…

Indian NGO Working on Maternal Health Wins MacArthur Award
Action Research & Training for Health (ARTH), an Indian NGO with a mission to “help communities access and manage health care according to their needs and capacity, by using research and training initiatives,” was awarded a MacArthur…