Maternal Health

By: Kate Mitchell, Knowledge Management Assistant, Maternal Health Task Force Women and Neglected Tropical Diseases: Shared History, Shared Hope* The theme of this year’s World Health Day is “Urbanization and Health.” Maternal mortality and morbidity,…

RAISE Initiative “In honour of World Health Day on April 7, 2010, the RAISE Initiative is proud to announce the release of At Two Fronts: This is the story of reproductive health in emergencies. This three-minute video offers glimpses into life…

By: Tim Thomas, Senior Advisor, MHTF Since the Safe Motherhood Initiative began in 1987, lots of catch phrases and tag lines have been deployed to raise awareness of our issues. • Every minute, of every day, a woman dies giving life. • No woman should…

Please join the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative and Environmental Change and Security Program, the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF), and the United Nations Population…

By: Dr. Ann Blanc, Director, MHTF Last week, I attended a workshop in London convened by Immpact/University of Aberdeen and Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children. The workshop – the first in a planned series – was on Assessing and Advancing the Evidence…

Grand Challenges in Global Health has announced Round 5 of their Grand Challenges Explorations Initiative: New Technologies to Improve the Health of Mothers and Newborns. Grand Challenges in Global Health About Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE)…

In the state of Tamil Nadu in India, maternal and neonatal mortality rates have been declining according to the World Bank. One of the reasons might be due to a component of new health care reforms focusing on educating women about healthy pregnancies.…

By: Lisa Russell, Filmmaker, Member, MHTF Editorial Committee Lisa Russell, MHTF Editorial Committee Member, reflects on her experiences filming Love, Labor, Loss; a 2003 film on obstetric fistula in Niger.  The Maternal Health Task Force invites…

On Thursday, February 25th, 2010, Dr. Jeremy Shiffman, member of the Maternal Health Task Force Editorial Committee, presented his research on issue ascendance in global health to a full house of MHTF partners and EngenderHealth staff at the…

Immpact (The Initiative for Maternal Mortality Programme Assessment) is almost finished with a literature review on birth kits in developing countries–and is making a final call for additional information. Immpact’s literature review…