Maternal Health

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant The UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel (HLP) on the post-2015 development agenda met this week in Bali, Indonesia to discuss priorities specifically related to the role of global partnerships. From The Guardian: …

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant As part of its Safe Birth. Even Here campaign, UNFPA recently released a new video highlighting the good news: that safe birth is possible even in the most trying of circumstances.  The video, as with the campaign…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant The first issue of the Global Health: Science and Practice, a new open access journal that focuses on publishing evidence that supports the improvement of health programs around the world is being launched this month.…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Earlier this week, The Lancet launched the first call for papers for its new journal, The Lancet Global Health. This is an incredibly exciting development, and promises to further thinking on a variety of major issues,…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant The MHTF and the journal PLOS currently have a call for papers open for year two of maternal health collection, with the theme “maternal health is women’s health,”and submissions received by April 1 will…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Every year, Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) holds a conference, Scientific Day, to present findings from humanitarian action and assistance programs around the world, as well as prompt discussion…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant In “Roots of Iraq’s maternal and child health crisis run deep” published today in The Lancet as part of a special edition on health in Iraq ten years after the U.S. invasion, Paul C. Webster synthesizes evidence on the…

Informed Decisions for Actions (IDEAS), kicks off its 2013 monthly web seminar series  to exchange knowledge, discuss literature and share experiences on maternal and newborn health next week.  The first session, on human rights and…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Last week’s announcement that a baby girl born HIV-positive in Mississippi had been functionally cured of the disease drew the attention of media around the world. However, the implications of this case are still unknown:…

Last Thursday, a special session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was held to draw attention to the issue of child marriage, and the experiences of the 39,000 girls who are married before the age of 18 every day. The session highlighted…