Maternal Health

The Lancet Global Health, the recently launched open-access global health journal of The Lancet, has published new national and regional estimates of term and preterm babies who are born small for gestational age in low and middle income countries. The…

A new study, published last month in the Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health, shares an analysis of two decades of CDC data showing that midwife-attended deliveries are on the rise in the United States. In fact, the report shows that the rate of…

The Lancet has launched a new open-access global health journal! According to Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, open-access publishing is something he and others at The Lancet have wanted to do for a long time. In this video, Horton chats with Zoë…

An expected 10,000 delegates will soon gather in Cape Town, South Africa for the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA). The conference, with the theme of Now more than ever: targeting zero, will be held from December 7-11, 2013. The…

From New York to Dar es Salaam to Chiapas, several global health and development organizations are hiring for exciting positions that focus on improving maternal health. In this post, the MHTF shares a round-up of ten recently posted maternal health jobs…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative Over the past year, the Saving Mothers, Giving Life (SMGL) partnership has worked to address the alarming levels of maternal mortality in Uganda and Zambia.…

By: Dr. Jean Anderson, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Jhpiego; Kelly Curran, Jhpiego, MCHIP; Laura Fitzgerald, Jhpiego, MCHIP Decisions about whether a woman and her partner want to have children, how many they might want to have, and when they might…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) is pleased to offer a limited number of scholarships for eligible colleagues to attend the International…

By: Jacqueline Kingfield, World Health Partners In India, 212 out of every 100,00 women die in childbirth.  In Uttar Pradesh (UP), India’s largest state where over 200 million people live, this number is almost double – 359 out of every…

By: Alison Chatfield, Project Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Complications from pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death for adolescents in much of the developing world, leading us to ask the question:…