Maternal Health

This week on the MHTF blog Mobiles to promote exclusive breastfeeding Lessons learned form the MoTeCH project in Ghana The launch of the Policy Dialogue Report from the Wilson Center Documentary film explores PMTCT in Zambia Some reading…

A documentary film released earlier this year explores one women’s effort to eradicate AIDS in Zambia: Mutinta’s journey is long and lonely, as the disease still generates fear and mystery in the community. First-time filmmaker Maggie…

In addition to seeing cool gadgets and new uses for technology, one of the most interesting parts of the mHealth Summit has been hearing people’s lessons learned. Allison Stone, MoTeCH project manager, and Maggie Schmitt, project officer, sat down with…

The Ghana Health Service has been implementing a project called Mobile Technology for Community Health (MoTeCH) that has been developing a mobile health information technology system to increase the quality and availability of maternal health care, with…

The World Health Organizations recommends that mothers perform exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first six months of their child’s life. However, although we are learning more about the benefits of EBF, it is on the decline in many countries…

We are at the mHealth Summit this week learning about the many applications of mobile technology to improve health. A number of sessions will be focusing specifically on maternal and child health, and we’ll be posting summaries and analysis of the…

This week on the MHTF blog: Some reflections on the partograph meeting MHTF-PLoS Collection on Maternal Health and Call for Papers The intersection of climate change and maternal health A survey on the maternal health supplies landscape from…

More participants from the partograph meeting share their reflections. Dr. Barbara E. Kwast, a consultant on maternal health and safe motherhood writes: There has to be a goal in the form of a minimum standard that we all must advocate for and…

In collaboration with the editors of PLoS, we have launched a collection of papers on maternal health and issued a call for papers: While there are many approaches to take, the MHTF–PLoS Collection in 2011–12 will focus on quality of maternal health…

At the technical meeting on partograph use earlier this month a wide variety of opinions were heard about the appropriateness of the tool, how to increase its coverage, and many other topics. Over the coming days, we’ll be posting some reflections…