Maternal Health

This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. Take Away Messages from Day One, June 26th, 2012, at Malaria in Pregnancy: A Solvable Problem—Bringing the Maternal Health and Malaria Communities…

Our colleagues at Johns Hopkins University and a number of other partners are organizing an upcoming summit at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York City on October 2nd and 3rd. The event will explore ways to improve health and health workforces…

This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. The Maternal Health Task Force is delighted to be hosting a technical meeting on malaria in pregnancy that will bring together the maternal health and…

By: Koki Agarwal, Co-Chair, Role Back Malaria “Malaria in Pregnancy Working Group, Director, MCHIP This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. Malaria is a maternal and child health issue.…

By: Mohammad Ahsan, CEDPA India The following is final part of a series of project updates from the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA). The MHTF is supporting their project, Working on Integration Issues of HIV/AIDS and Maternal…

Earlier this week, the Guttmacher Institute and UNFPA published a new study that estimates the number of women with an unmet need for contraception to be 222 million in 2012, a slight decrease from 2008. 645 million women in the developing world are…

In an article, China one-child policy leads to forced abortions, mothers’ deaths, published on June 15th, Barbara Demick writes about the issue of forced abortions and sterilizations in the rural countryside of China. Enforcement of…

By: Bill Brieger, Senior Malaria Specialist, JHPIEGO This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. This post was originally posted on Malaria Matters. While we have seen a push for universal…

By: Gary Darmstadt and Wendy Prosser, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation This post was originally posted on Impatient Optimists. With almost 200 million people living in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, a state more populous than the entire country…

By: Kate Teela, Erin Shutes, France Donnay and David Brandling-Bennett, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. By 2015, the Government of Nigeria aims for…