Maternal Health

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Our colleagues at IDEAS are currently recruiting for a student intern: IDEAS (Informed Decisions for Actions) aims to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies through generating evidence to inform…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant The MHTF is pleased to announce the launch of our latest MHTF-PLOS Maternal Health Collection on the theme Maternal Health is Women’s Health.  The collection includes 12 initial research articles…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Between March 8, International Women’s Day, and Mothers’ Day on May 8, the Global Mom Relay, is using social media to connect and mobilize support for the  UN’s Every Woman Every Child campaign to…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Our colleagues at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) MARCH Centre are holding an event to launch the new exhibit, “Towards happier birth days” next Tuesday, April 23. From the exhibit…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant The 2013 International Conference on Family Planning, which will be held from 12-15 November in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is accepting submissions of abstracts. However, the deadline is quickly approaching. From the call…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant A blog post published over the weekend in The Guardian describes one effort to use mobile technologies, specifically handheld GPS-enabled devices, to collect evidence on the distribution of health facilities. The project…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Today, April 5, marks the beginning of the 1000 day countdown to the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon sums up the current situation as follows: In the last…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant PATH and Merck for Mothers are hosting a webinar next Wednesday, April 10 at noon (EDT) to present the findings of PATH and Merck for Mothers’ year-long collaboration to identify innovations with the greatest potential to…

Hesperian Health has announced the launch of its comprehensive app on healthy pregnancy and birth in Spanish. This version joins Hesperian’s English-language app, “Safe Pregnancy and Birth,” which has been downloaded more than 60,000 times,…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Two new studies reported on by The New York Times , document the role that stigma related to HIV/AIDS plays in dissuading women around the world from using health services during pregnancy and at delivery. One study,…