Maternal Health

The first 1,000 days of child’s life, including for mothers while pregnant, are key to a child’s development and future. Malnutrition during this period can have detrimental effects that last a lifetime. This is one of many areas in which…

The Knowledge Management (KM) unit of the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) requires a highly motivated KM Assistant to help coordinate and support the MHTF KM strategy and tactics. The MHTF website is one of the most important channels through which…

The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) is seeking a Senior Program Assistant. The Senior Program Assistant will be a pivot point for the MHTF. In addition to supporting the MHTF Director as needed, the Sr. Program Assistant will support the MHTF’s…

Photographer Mark Tuschman was recently in Northern Nigeria on behalf of the Packard Foundation to look at maternal health and family planning. For the seventh post in his series of “Nigerian Chronicles,” he visited various hospitals in the…

This week on the MHTF blog: We heard from Maria Laura Casalegno, a Young Champion working in Mexico Young Champion Martha Fikre Adenew wrote about maternal health in Louisiana The Maternal Health Policy Dialogue Series streamed live on the…

By: Kate Mitchell, This post was originally published on Kate Mitchell’s blog, Maternal Mortality Daily. Reposted with permission. On Wednesday, September 29th, nearly 300 community health workers from 174 villages in the rural Seraikela block…

This week on the MHTF blog: We heard from CIESAS and their evaluation of a Mexican Ministry of Health program The Department of Community Medicine at Rajarata University of Sri Lanka told us about their focus on maternal morbidity CEDPA…

Saturday, October 23 marks the UK launch of the film, No Woman No Cry, directed by Christy Turlington Burns, at the London Film Festival. Also, starting on Saturday, you’ll be able to watch the film online at www.brightwide.com. The film tells the…

By: Ashish KC, Program Manager, Saving Newborn Lives, Save the Children, Nepal This post was originally published on the Healthy Newborn Network blog. Reprinted here with permission. With five years remaining until the deadline for the Millennium…

The following is part of a series of project updates from the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia (CIESAS). MHTF is supporting their project, Evaluation of ALSO Program. More information on MHTF supported projects can be found…