Maternal Health

Guest post contributed by our colleagues at the Countdown to 2015 initiative Since 1990, annual maternal deaths have declined by almost one half and the deaths of young children have declined from 12 million to 7.6 million in 2010. Some of the…

By: Elaine Roman, Malaria Team Leader, MCHIP This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, malaria in pregnancy (MIP) programs are at a crossroads. While many…

In the comment section of the latest issue of the Lancet, several articles discuss current progress toward improving the health of women and children. The authors of Building a future for women and children offer interesting insight into the fourth…

By: Dr. Sylla Thiam, Malaria Programme Lead, AMREF This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. Pregnant women living in malaria-endemic regions are particularly vulnerable to the disease because…

Rahim Kanani, Manager of the “Common Good” column at Forbes, recently interviewed Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), about the new report highlighting major declines in maternal…

This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. A couple of months ago, I had the chance to meet again with the members of the Plasmodium Vivax Infection in Pregnancy (PregVax) Consortium in Dehli,…

This post is the first in a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. According to a recent report from researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) published in the Lancet, the number of…

On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged $75 million in U.S. support to the “Saving Mothers, Giving Life” initiative that aims to reduce maternal mortality in Africa, starting in Zambia and Uganda. The Norwegian Foreign Minister…

K4Health recently published a needs assessment and network mapping of family planning and reproductive health information in Ethiopia. The overall goal of the assessment was to gain a better understanding of the accessibility and flow of information…

Colleagues at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) recently published a paper, Costs of Maternal Health-related Complications in Bangladesh, in the Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition that explores the…