Maternal Health

In a recent post on the Guardian’s Poverty Matters blog, Johanna Ralston, Chief Executive of the World Heart Federation, and Ann Keeling, Chief Executive of the International Diabetes Federation, argue that post-MDG development goals must…

BioMed Central, an open-access publisher, recently issued a call for papers on quality improvement for neonatal care. From the call: Open access publishing has the ability to rapidly communicate medical advances to providers throughout the world.…

By: Shirine Mohagheghpour and Amy Grossman, Venture Strategies Innovations (VSI)   For laboring mothers in Bangladesh, the generic medicine, misoprostol, can mean the difference between a happy, healthy delivery and one marred by fear, or worse,…

Today is the first ever World Sepsis Day (WSD)! World Sepsis Day is an initiative of the Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA), involving organizations from sixty-nine countries, that aims to call attention to a neglected issue in global health. The overall…

By: Suzy Sacher and Paula Nersesian, John Snow, Inc. Center for Health Logistics This post is part of a blog series on maternal health commodities. To view the entire series, click here. To improve women’s health, supply chains for essential health…

A message from our friends at Women Deliver and Catapult, a new crowdfunding platform that supports projects advancing the lives of girls and women around the world: As the Catalyzing Partners, Women Deliver and the Bill & Melinda Gates…

By: Ana Langer, Director of the Maternal Health Task Force and Women and Health Initiative Over the course of the Safe Motherhood movement, the common wisdom has been that adolescent women have a highly elevated risk of maternal death —roughly two…

By: Safia Ahsan, Senior Health Systems Advisor, Ipas This post is part of a blog series on maternal health commodities. To view the entire series, click here. As the deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, there is…

We are delighted to announce that the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013 abstract submission site is now open. You can start the abstract submission process here. Abstracts are invited for oral or poster presentations under any of the five…

A special message from our friends organizing the maternal and newborn health (MNH) track at the upcoming Women Deliver Conference: The third Global Women Deliver Conference will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on May 28-30th 2013, with an…