Maternal Health

By: Natalie Ramm, Communications Coordinator, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Rates of cesarean section are extremely high in certain countries like Brazil and the United States, among others, and dangerously low in others. The…

Disrespect and abuse during childbirth happens all over the world and at an alarming rate. For example, about half of respondents in a 2012 survey identified lack of privacy, lack of informed consent, and verbal abuse, as examples of disrespect or abuse…

In a post featured last week on Family Care International’s blog, Vice President Martha Murdock provides an in-depth discussion of A Price too High to Bear, a new report documenting the far-reaching consequences of maternal deaths on families in Kenya.…

April 4th, 2014 8:30am-5:30am EST Thompson Room, Barker Center 12 Quincy Street Harvard University Cambridge, MA The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard and the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality invite you to…

As we near the end of the Millennium Development Goals in 2015, the maternal health community must come together to ensure that maternal health remains on the international agenda. This week and next week, the Maternal Health Task Force will host…

One aspect of the Maternal Health Task Force’s mission is to increase access to critical maternal health information and evidence. We know that language can be a barrier to access, especially since the scientific literature is primarily in English. As…

The International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) and Save the Children invite you to nominate an exceptional midwife who works in maternal and newborn care in low-resource settings. All women need access to antenatal care in pregnancy and skilled…

By: Isabella Danel, MD, MS, the CDC Division of Reproductive Health This post originally appeared on the CDC’s Our Global Voices blog. Maternal health has improved in most regions of the world, with far fewer women dying during pregnancy…

The Wilson Center will host another fantastic event within their Maternal Health Initiative program on Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Programs as a Strategy to Advance Maternal Health.  The event will highlight the intersection of access to quality…

By: Leilani Hastings, Conference Coordinator, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Last week, BMC International Health and Human Rights published an article by Hammonds and Ooms entitled, “The emergence of a global right to health norm…