Maternal Health

HIV Positive Mothers Helping HIV Positive Mothers
Patience Hlengiwe Kweyama, site coordinator with mothers2mothers, recently wrote a post, HIV Positive Mothers Helping HIV Positive Mothers, for the Huffington Post’s Global Motherhood blog that describes the work of mothers2mothers as well as her role…

Creative Approaches to Addressing the Unmet Need for Contraceptives
By: Jill Sheffield, Founder and President, Women Deliver This post is part of a blog series on maternal health commodities. To view the entire series, click here. Recently, a new study by the Guttmacher Institute and the United Nations Population Fund…

So Many, Yet Few: Human Resources for Health in India
Earlier this week, Human Resources for Health published a paper, So many, yet few: Human resources for health in India, that explores the information gap around human resources for health in many developing countries and aims to provide a more…

Maternal Health Commodities: Looking Beyond Medicines
This post is part of a blog series on maternal health commodities. To view the entire series, click here. Written by: the Fistula Care team at EngenderHealth. The UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities is working to improve access to…

Respectful Care is Quality Care
Catherine Carr, Senior Maternal Health Advisor for Jhpiego and MCHIP, recently wrote a post, Respectful Care is Quality Care, for the Huffington Post’s Global Motherhood blog that describes why the concept of “safe…

Closing the Cancer Divide Between Rich and Poor Women
Ana Langer, Director of the Maternal Health Task Force at the Women and Health Initiative at Harvard School of Public Health, is a co-author on an important new publication, Meeting the emerging challenge of breast and cervical cancer in low- and…