Maternal Health

Our colleagues at Maternova recently highlighted on their innovation index a new tool (that is currently in development) that aims to increase the effectiveness of the partograph. The PartoPen is being developed by University of…

Earlier this week, the Huffington Post shared a story on their Global Motherhood Blog, Maternal Health in the Mobile Age, that tells the story of one community health worker, Pushpa, in rural India who was recently introduced to a new mobile-based…

Midwifery Journal recently published an article, Midwifery scope of practice among staff nurses: A grounded theory study in Gujarat, India, that aims to explore the role of midwives (among staff nurses) in providing maternal health services in…

The International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics published a new article today, Patterns in training, knowledge, and performance of skilled birth attendants providing emergency obstetric and newborn care in Afghanistan, that explores the role of…

IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis published a story today, PHILIPPINES: Conditional cash for better maternal health, about the role of conditional cash transfers (CCT) to incentivize women in the Philippines to access maternal health services. The…

A recent collaboration between The Lancet and Imperial College London has led to a new Commission on Technologies for Global Health (launched today) that explores how medical technology (that tends to be developed in wealthy…

PLoS ONE recently published a paper, Effect of Early Detection and Treatment on Malaria Related Maternal Mortality on the North-Western Border of Thailand 1986–2010, describing research that showed frequent antenatal clinic screening on the north-western…

According to the Healthy Newborn Network, Health Policy and Planning recently published a supplement, A Decade of Change for Newborn Survival, that shares a multi-country analysis of the changes in newborn care and survival from…

Yesterday, Impatient Optimists published a post titled, How 15,000 Midwives Will Save Mothers’ Lives, that describes a new project by AMREF, the African Medical & Research Foundation, that aims to train 15,000 midwives across several countries…

In an article titled Women Need More Health in AIDS Battle, Experts Say, the Huffington Post reports on recent conversations at the International AIDS Conference about the need for more focused efforts to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS among women, with…