Maternal Health

BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth recently published a commentary titled, Overcoming phase 1 delays: the critical component of obstetric fistula prevention programs in resource-poor countries that discusses fistula prevention in developing countries and…

GMHC2013 is a technical conference for scientists, researchers, and policy-makers to network, share knowledge, and build on progress toward eradicating preventable maternal mortality and morbidity by improving quality of care. The conference is…

In a piece titled, Global AIDS conference rally calls for cheaper medicines, more funding, the Washington Post reports on the first day of the International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. From the piece: As in all these meetings, the opening…

In the maternal health community, we often decry a lack of good data, which is often echoed by others working on a number of women’s issue. In order to address some of these data gaps, the U.S. government and the World Bank have launched…

Leading up to the19th International AIDS Conference that will take place in Washington D.C. from 22-27 July 2012, UNAIDS released a new report, Together We Will End AIDS, yesterday showing that “as international funding flattens, more countries are…

PLoS Medicine recently published a systematic review that explores the effectiveness of emergency obstetric referral interventions in developing country settings. The authors concluded that monitoring of interventions and evaluation of outcomes must be…

On Friday, the Guardian reported that Turkey recently became first country to make elective cesarean sections punishable by law. While Turkey has one of the world’s highest cesarean section rates, members of the medical community in Turkey are…

Following the London Summit on Family Planning, the Economist reports on global access to contraception in a piece titled, Choice not chance: Family planning returns to the international development agenda.   From the piece: The term…

The Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) published a new report that explores the dual global epidemics of HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence (GBV), the destructive and disproportionate impact on women…

The UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in collaboration with UNFPA, national governments, donors, civil society, the private sector, the research and development community, and other colleagues from around the world are meeting…