Maternal Health

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant President Joyce Banda has made improving maternal health a centerpiece of her Presidency since taking office last spring, and her first “State of the Nation” address is no exception. The speech, which was published…

By: Priya Agrawal, Executive Director, Merck for Mothers This is a quick reminder to encourage you to fill out our survey on barriers to appropriate use of essential maternal health technologies before the deadline on February 8. The survey should take…

By: Lauren Herzer, Wilson Center This blog post is cross-posted from the New Security Beat. Does access to quality water and sanitation have an effect on maternal health outcomes? That was a surprising topic of discussion on day one of the…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative Yesterday, WBUR, Boston’s NPR news station, aired a story, Mexico Aims To Save Babies And Moms With Modern Midwifery, about a new public midwifery…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth recently published an article, Quality of antenatal care in Zambia: A national assessment, that classified and assessed the…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative PLOS ONE recently published an article, Piecing Together the Maternal Death Puzzle through Narratives: The Three Delays Model Revisited, that explores…

A message from our colleagues at UNFPA: Nokia joins UNFPA’s Safe Birth. Even Here campaign, through which midwives in refugee camps are reporting on safe deliveries by uploading photos and stories to a website from where the good news can be shared…

A message from our colleagues at the Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS): The Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS) is now accepting letters of inquiry to identify and develop research sites in low-…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative Last week, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation released the findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. One of the major findings:…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative In a recent paper published in BMC Women’s Health, Julio Frenk,  Octavio Gomez-Dantez and Ana Langer (Director of the Maternal Health Task Force)…